AoE III price lowered another $10

Dew what? Sent from Illinois to Big Ben (to keep it on time), and then back (to US customer)? Or would they be smart enough to send direct (hopefully charging only the actual one-way shipping)?

EXCELLENT question especially if it got sent directly to a customer in the US!

I'm amazed, quite frankly. Normally (certainly in the past it's always been the case) American books would be priced for sale in the UK at their cover dollar value simply stated as pounds instead. For example, an American book with a cover price of $50 would be priced in Britain at 50

*pounds* resulting in a nice little markup for the bookseller thanks to the long-standing relationship between the pound and the dollar typically averaging 1 pound = 1.5 dollars. Maybe people buying books directly over the net has forced UK booksellers into revising their rip-off pricing?

"Er fixiert das Kabel."

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I cable an idiom in German?

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Ah, I take it Horowitz is the Lebowski fan.

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On Sun, 31 May 2015 19:47:40 -0700 (PDT), "John Miles, KE5FX" Gave us:

Here is that converter I mentioned, Win.

Don't know how easy it would be to re-tune down to 60Hz. Not likely very easy as it is tied to the magnetics. It is a pretty nice converter though.

I just received the copy I ordered a few days ago from Amazon, and it's still the first printing.

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Are you going to return it? lol

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Thank you.

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There is an announcement on Amazon UK pages saying that the sale and shipping of AoE is interrupted due to problems in edition inventory.

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Aha, Amazon US pulled rank and got the 1st-printing shipment that was supposed to go to Amazon UK, so a smaller emergency 2nd printing was done, mostly for Amazon UK. Maybe now they're waiting for a shipment of 3rd-printing copies (1st one with corrections) to arrive from the US. SFAIK that's all CUP has in stock.

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On 2 Jun 2015 02:02:09 -0700, Winfield Hill Gave us:

Their CUP runneth over, AND amuck.

Yeah, Win ordered too many.

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On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:24:45 -0700, John Larkin Gave us:

That's just too funny.

That's one way to increase your royalty payments.

Not a very efficient way admittedly...

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Maybe he gives them away. He sent me a signed edition, which I've shown to, maybe, 30 people so far. Especially page 360.

I give a copy of AoE to any of my techs or engineers who don't already have one.

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Yes I saw that! John Fields is in there too and JT I think.

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He does that to sell more books! Sort of an indirect vanity press.

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