[MacRuby-devel] MacRuby: The Definitive Guide

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Wed Nov 9 12:38:41 PST 2011


At 3:02 PM -0600 11/9/11, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> This isn't a criticism, but I'm wondering how Amazon can
> sell it so much cheaper than O'Reilly themselves.

O'Reilly, like most publishers, is constrained by the fact
that it doesn't want to undercut its dealers (eg, bookstores).

Obviously, Amazon does not have that constraint...

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