Marc Feeley wrote:

On 9-Aug-07, at 1:33 AM, David Rush wrote:

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On 8/9/07, Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu wrote:

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Amazon.ca is selling Christian Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces for CAN $3.95+shipping (anywhere in the world):

And to think just (2 months or so) bought a copy at the usual price (U$90-100)! This one won't last, folks. Buy it Now :)

david rush

I've ordered 15 copies for a total of $60 earlier today...

Geez. I go away for a couple days and look what I miss.

It appears that this has gone away. And I've actually been looking to buy LiSP.

Bummer.

-a

Taylor R Campbell wrote:

Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:29:56 -0700 From: Andrew Lentvorski bsder@allcaps.org

It appears that this has gone away. And I've actually been looking to buy LiSP.

I didn't think of this in time, but there may be other Lispers out there who bought ten copies in order to get the free shipping and for less total cost than half of the book's present price. Look around; they might have a few spare copies they could sell.

I ended up buying a single copy from Amazon US at list price, which was $51US. It was well worth the price, and I plan to keep it. :)

On 14-Aug-07, at 6:07 PM, Adrien Pierard wrote:

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I ended up buying a single copy from Amazon US at list price, which was $51US. It was well worth the price, and I plan to keep it. :)

Looks like some people have had their order simply cancelled by amazon.ca. So, who's been lucky, and who has not ?

Mine was cancelled. Here are the details from Amazon:

Greetings from Amazon.ca.

We regret to inform you that an error caused the following item(s) to be displayed at an incorrect price:

------------------------------------------------------------------ Lisp in Small Pieces ------------------------------------------------------------------

In accordance with our posted policies on pricing, we're unable to offer items that have an incorrectly posted price. Therefore, we have cancelled this item from your order.

We realize we can't make up for the inconvenience and disappointment caused by this error, however, we'd like to offer you a $10 gift certificate that you may use toward a future order at Amazon.ca. Details for using the gift certificate are listed below.

At any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the millions of items on our site may be mispriced. We do, however, verify prices as part of our shipping procedures. If we discover that an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. This policy is posted in the Help section and is accessible through numerous other areas of our web site.

We value your business and hope that you will give us a chance to serve you again in the future.

Sincerely,

Customer Service Department Amazon.ca

Mine too, but they've given me a chit for $10 CAN which is fat use to me since I'm the other side of the pond. So if anyone wants to barter I'm open to offers! Shall we say the best Scheme joke wins the prize

Dr Nicholas Walton

"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."

~Herodotus (485-425 BC) Greek philosopher, 'Father of History' from The Histories of Herodotus

On 15 Aug 2007, at 10:05, Phil Dawes wrote:

Yep - mine was cancelled

-Phil

Adrien Pierard wrote:

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I ended up buying a single copy from Amazon US at list price, which was $51US. It was well worth the price, and I plan to keep it. :)

Looks like some people have had their order simply cancelled by amazon.ca. So, who's been lucky, and who has not ?

Adrien

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On 8/15/07, Guillaume Germain guillaume.germain@gmail.com wrote:

R6RS!

Since we're doing jokes, and since RnRS is itself based on a joke (a play on the Algol report) -- earlier today I thought of a better name which I think the newly inaugurated R5.97RS should be called by when it becomes a final standard: GrandScheme.

"Grand", of course, being French for large, which is the exact opposite of the ideal for a Scheme standard. OH! I'll be here all week!

Yes, I want the book pretty damn bad.

--Jeff