------ art_47828_25821219.1146671862538 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Dave gets my business because I'm buying his book. Amazon gets my business because I'm an Amazon Prime member so the books get shipped 2 day for no additional charge and Amazon has always done the right thing by me when orders were lost in shipments, etc. I make on average 3 Amazon orders a week and I always feel satisfied with the orders, thus I want to keep supporting a vendor that does right by me. Finally, if the large distributors (e.g., Amazon, B&N, Borders) have more orders for Ruby materials, the more they will promote/stock Ruby titles. Helping Ruby books get shelf space is a very good thing for the Ruby community and for Ruby book publishers. On 5/3/06, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb / nasa.gov> wrote: > > David Pollak wrote: > > > > I want to buy the book and I like to give Amazon my business. > > Just curious: why do you prefer to give Amazon your business > over giving Dave your business? > > (Note: you can't get a PDF from Amazon.) > > Regards, > -- > Bil > http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov > > -- -------- David Pollak's Ruby Playground http://dppruby.com ------ art_47828_25821219.1146671862538--