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I still remember when Amazon CA accidentally had this on sale for a pittance, then axed all the orders when people tried to buy it. Really should get a copy at
by runevault 11y ago
I still remember when Amazon CA accidentally had this on sale for a pittance, then axed all the orders when people tried to buy it. Really should get a copy at some point.
- agumonkey 11y agoHa, they did cancel the orders ? The fun of seeing a lisp book on amazon's best sellers all of a sudden. ps: Highly valuable book, it's dense, theoretical but not too much, opens on a lot of other papers, and covers a large space about languages.
- runevault 11y agoI think a few orders actually shipped, but the impression I got was the vast majority got cancelled, and yeah I've only heard wonderful things about the book, I just need to decide to drop the cash on it.
- Zuider 11y agoYeah they cancelled my order. The price (of a few cents) had been assigned by a software error. Amazon was most apologetic for their inability to ship the item, and compensated me with a $10.00 voucher. On a related note, I found a copy of Adele Goldberg's 'Smalltalk 80: The Language' in a junk shop for 50 cents. When I checked Amazon, the listed price was over five thousand dollars (due to automated bidding bots from rival booksellers).