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I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like

by petilon 12y ago

I recommend buying your computer books in India. US Price for this book is $150 USD. India price is around Rs. 427 which is around $7 USD. Textbook prices, like everything related to education and healthcare are excessively high in the US. A reasonable price would be around $50, which is what this book would cost if it wasn't a textbook. The same book in Amazon India: http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementation-Tanenbaum-Andrew/dp/8120329554/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1426602500&sr=8-4&keywords=tanenbaum http://www.amazon.in/Operating-Systems-Implementation-Tanenb... Update: Cheaper books bought in India may not be commercially exported out of India

SSLy 12y ago
Yeah, do they ship to Europe?
- carlesfe 12y ago
  Not to Spain, at least: "Sorry, this item can't be shipped to your selected address."
  - lobo_tuerto 12y ago
    And not to México either... :(
- switch007 12y ago
  I sourced it in the UK as an (IIRC) "International Edition"
j-b 12y ago
I was eager to take your advice. Problem is it can't be shipped to the US.
- have_humility 12y ago
  See LeonRobrotsky's suggestion with AbeBooks. Another suggestion is Barnes & Noble. (Yes, really.) I myself had borrowed a copy through interlibrary loan back in November after checking Amazon for <$50 dollar copies, only to be blown away that they were more like $160-$190. If you've used ILL, though, you probably know how tedious it can be. A couple of weeks ago, I had to kill some time, so I meandered into a Barnes & Noble for the first time in years and on a whim tried to look up Operating Systems: Design and Implementation on bn.com. Turns out, bn.com operates not just to sell B&N wares, but also apparently as a sort of hub for third-party sellers, (just?) like Amazon. I was surprised to see the market rate for used copies was $34.50, so I snagged one. Meanwhile, the AbeBooks link above has a shrink-wrapped copy for $16.52. Takeaway: don't assume that Amazon is the end-all-be-all, even for books.
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- zerocrates 12y ago
  After Kirtsaeng [1], I don't think so... (at least as far as US law is concerned) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Sons,_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....
LeonRobrotsky 12y ago
Just look on AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9788120329553 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...
- a3n 12y ago
  Irony of ironies: if you look at the bottom of Amazon's front page, you'll see they own Abe.

by petilon 12y ago

SSLy 12y ago

Yeah, do they ship to Europe?

carlesfe 12y ago
Not to Spain, at least: "Sorry, this item can't be shipped to your selected address."
- lobo_tuerto 12y ago
  And not to México either... :(
switch007 12y ago
I sourced it in the UK as an (IIRC) "International Edition"

j-b 12y ago

I was eager to take your advice. Problem is it can't be shipped to the US.

have_humility 12y ago
See LeonRobrotsky's suggestion with AbeBooks. Another suggestion is Barnes & Noble. (Yes, really.) I myself had borrowed a copy through interlibrary loan back in November after checking Amazon for <$50 dollar copies, only to be blown away that they were more like $160-$190. If you've used ILL, though, you probably know how tedious it can be. A couple of weeks ago, I had to kill some time, so I meandered into a Barnes & Noble for the first time in years and on a whim tried to look up Operating Systems: Design and Implementation on bn.com. Turns out, bn.com operates not just to sell B&N wares, but also apparently as a sort of hub for third-party sellers, (just?) like Amazon. I was surprised to see the market rate for used copies was $34.50, so I snagged one. Meanwhile, the AbeBooks link above has a shrink-wrapped copy for $16.52. Takeaway: don't assume that Amazon is the end-all-be-all, even for books.

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zerocrates 12y ago
After Kirtsaeng [1], I don't think so... (at least as far as US law is concerned) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Sons,_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....

LeonRobrotsky 12y ago

Just look on AbeBooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9788120329553 http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=978812032...

a3n 12y ago
Irony of ironies: if you look at the bottom of Amazon's front page, you'll see they own Abe.