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Re: Transcript of Keynote
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:00:43 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.events.brickswest, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:

Tim Courtney announced preorders for Virtual Lego, the book he and Ahui are
authoring. Syngress is also offering 25% off their texts.


Isn't Syngress the evil publisher of the competing clone copy of Courtney's
book?

I went to the site hoping to find a discounted version of Virtual Lego.
(Always looking for a bargain on something I know I am going to buy.)  But I
found "Lego Power Tools" instead. :(

Sorry for confusion. the Virtual Lego(r) book (which has a separate
announcemenet, it's currently the top story on LUGNET(tm) is by No Starch
Press(tm).

the Power Tools book is by Syngress(tm).



Note that the 25% off on the books was by both publishers and as far as I
can tell (I was at BW03).  The 25% off was for books SOLD during the event
only.  No Starch was taking pre-order for the LDraw Book (with FREE
shipping) and Syngress had Kevin's book for 25% off (no shipping since you
got the book).

I do believe that Kevin even sign some for those who bought and asked.
-AHui
Hope that helps.

still owe a corrected version of the transcript. Hopefully will have time to
do it on the plane today. (talking with other festers takes precedence)

-Alfred



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  Re: Transcript of Keynote
 
Ahui, Yup. I signed books. It was kinda neat. I also made a lot of new friends, and got a whole new list of "improvements" to make to LPub and LSynth. BricksWest was great! I now have faces for the names I know so well from lugnet. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)

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  Re: Transcript of Keynote
 
(...) Sorry for confusion. the Virtual Lego(r) book (which has a separate announcemenet, it's currently the top story on LUGNET(tm) is by No Starch Press(tm). the Power Tools book is by Syngress(tm). Hope that helps. still owe a corrected version of (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.events.brickswest)

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