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| (...) Ummm, obviously that page isn't visited much by LugNuts. I found it by accident about a month ago after trying to log onto the forums after someone emailed me that they had rendered my compressor in MLCad. The hoops I had to go through to get (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| "Dave Baum" <dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com> wrote in message news:dbaum-FAB69A.18...net.com... (...) Get both books, cheaper, from Varisty Books: (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) When I signed my contract with O'Reilly, they indicated that net income on a book was approximately 50% of the cover price, so yes, if they make a profit it's negligible at best in these cases... (...) In my case, the contract was based on net (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| In lugnet.robotics, David Schilling writes: [...] (...) From what I understand, Amazon makes no profit when a book is 30% off list and then grants a 15% referral fee.[1] The 15% is a maximum. A visitor to their site would need to buy directly (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Not to mention, of course, the whole thing where these books are nothing but beneficial to Lego, and much more beneficial if they actually use their name in the title. (To make another analogy: a book called "How to use Linux" is nice for Red (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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