[TriLUG] Re: Offshoring (was: Linux / Solaris Position)

[Mike M]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:44:03AM -0500, Magnus Hedemark wrote:
> I'd *love* to buy more books.  Maybe O'Reilly should move most of their 
> operations to Bangalore so their books don't need to cost $40-$60 a pop 
> and I could afford more. ;-)  Probably a good amount of my "copious" spare 
> time is spent learning new skills, reading books, expanding my mind to be 
> a better BOFH.  The high price of books does force me to more carefully 
> select what subjects I'm going to study and how often I can buy a new 
> book.

Amazon has lots of off-price books from second-hand shops and such.
I've been buying from those guys.  I picked up a $40 book for $15
recently.

-- 
Mike

Two hundred years ago, we note mischievously, the average American or 
European had a standard of living not very much superior to that of the
average man in India or China. -- dailyreckoning.com