At 5:28 PM -0500 11/28/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Lucky me -- I was recently able to score a nice copy of Vinge's "Across Realtime", the '91 edition that includes "Ungoverned", for only $3 at a used bookstore. Busy reading it now, and liking it so much I talked myself into a $25 copy of "True Names" I found thru Bibliofind. Wish they were hardcover, it seems like an awful lot to pay $25 for a pulp edition paperback, but seeing that all the other copies were $60 and up and also paperback, I guess it's a deal.
Considering that the new edition of "True Names" is just about to appear, and has a bunch of related essays in it, I certainly wouldn't have paid $25 for the pb.
Used book stores -- sigh! Sure wish I could afford to quit the computer racket and run a used book store instead.
A _physical_ used book store? Surely you are kidding. My experience is that used book stores are employers of low-wage people...suggesting slim profit margins. If you are suggesting an Internet service, you wouldn't even have to leave the computer biz. OTOH, other companies are already offering such matching services. Powell's Books, for example. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)