Comments on: The Other Book Bargain of the Century http://williamrabkin.com/2009/07/12/the-other-book-bargain-of-the-century/ come for the self-promotion, stay for the pie Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sharmila Shankar Meena http://williamrabkin.com/2009/07/12/the-other-book-bargain-of-the-century/#comment-266 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:42:51 +0000 http://williamrabkin.com/?p=90#comment-266 Whoa (“Double whoa” like Gus says in the TV series)! Hold your horses! Not all kids in India are bored and not all are sex-crazed or Nazi-fanatics. Take my own family and my pal’s. My cousin brother is about 25 years old, but he works at an office in the graveyard shift. So, he has no time for any sort of perversions. My cousin sister, for instance, works as a manager and she barely gets a second to spare, even for talking to her mum on the phone. My dad and mom work. My friends are bad at the English language. So, there is no chance they would watch any English serials or visit offensive websites on the internet. There are many people like this in India, who would neither have the interest nor the time to go through a 1000 page catalog full of sexual innuendos or offensive material. And if at all anything like this is happening, then it is not just in India, but all around the world.

]]> By: David Spencer http://williamrabkin.com/2009/07/12/the-other-book-bargain-of-the-century/#comment-152 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:32:18 +0000 http://williamrabkin.com/?p=90#comment-152 Even better than Amazon.uk for saving dough on UK releases is The Book Depository (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk); cover prices a bit higher, but no shipping fee, no tax. And (weirdly) each selection has a LINK to Amazon, in case you choose to comparison shop (which makes sense if there are new/used/remaindered copies on offer, or if BD is out of stock on a limited release item).

AND they’ve just opened a US site at http://www.bookdepository.com — again, no tax and no shipping fees — that seems absurdly competitive, price-wise, which also lets you use PayPal.

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