[sdiy] "Art of Electronics" bootlegs?

[Jess Balint]

If you don't feel like paying all that money for dubious qualityforeign goods, try a good old internet PDF book:
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/
This is quite an extensive site.
Jess
On 6/12/05, Metrophage <c0r3dump23 at yahoo.com> wrote:> As I have been getting tired of my ignorance of electronics, I decided> that I should get a good book or several to cover the basics. I've got> Lancaster's "cookbooks", Hal Chamberlin's "Musical Applications of> MIcroprocessors", and Barry Klein's book on analog synth circuits. A> lot of stuff about electronic music, but no real foundation on general> electronics. Since the book has been by far more recommended to me than> any other - and appears to be quite good - I decided to get a copy of> Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics".> > I don't always get stuff via eBay, but it does often make a decent> barometer for prices. Also, I like doing business person-to-person when> I can. I search for The Art of Electronics on eBay, and just about> every copy has been from Hong Kong or Singapore, and priced at about> the $10-$30 range. Since this is from Asia, the shipping is quite a> bit. If I were to get a copy from Hong K!
 ong for $9.99 US, I'd need to> pay $29.00 for shipping…> > Isn't this weird? Do people just knock off copies for cheap over there> and sell them? Is somebody liquidating them around here and inflating> the shipping? I expect to see these tactics if I am looking at anime> DVDs or foreign movies, but not electronics textbooks.> > CJ> > __________________________________________________> Do You Yahoo!?> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around> http://mail.yahoo.com>