Interesting, SPIE has a student rate of only $10 for "special consideration" nations with less than world average salarys and income. The Individual rate for same is only $30...
http://spie.org/x1763.xmlI think given the current economy, jobs outlooks for anything technical, manufacturing, etc. and they should consider including the US in their discount list, to be entirely fair, the emerging nations have emerged and are in many case doing business without the US ever entering the picure, either through local economy or international sales not involving the US. All the jobs in the US nowadays seem to be service related moreso than R & D or manufacturing, we have become mindless users of technology, consumers rather than inovators, but that's another story...
But,
whatever the costs and logistics.
SPIE looks like a pretty good ticket for books all around.
Robert
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <oceanartscasino@...> wrote:
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> I should mention another thing about texts,
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> there are some club memberships that offer discounts, Barnes & Noble is $25 per year and if you buy more than 3 books you might break even, over that your probably saving, but that would only apply to new book purchases from B & N, and not "marketplace" books they list from outside sellers.
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> another membership I do not as yet have,
> but it looks like it might be worth the investment, is a SPIE subscriber membership, with a student ID it's only $20. I wish they had a non-commercial hobbyest rate but the indinvidual rate is $105
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> http://spie.org/x24014.xml?ID=x24014
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> SPIE is a publisher of many interesting texts and membership offers discounts to publications, free journal access, etc.
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> Robert
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <oceanartscasino@> wrote:
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> > I use Barnes & Noble as a primary search, and supliment with search from Abebooks.com and Biblio.com
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> > Usually when a "marketplace" title shows up in a B&N search the seller's price is about 5% less either direct or through Abebooks.com or Biblio.com
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> > FYI: I have never had very good result with amazon search
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> > Multiple search will often find the same titles from the same seller, the interesting thing is there are usually differences in price, guessing this is margin for the website, whichever.
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> > Occasionally I will find a title at a very good price on eBay, and it's also usually from a seller that is listed with Abebooks or Biblio, but more often than not almost every title listed on eBay is marked up far beyond any found in any search, higher than suggested retail even, guessing this is the result of "direct selling", where a seller does not have the item, they just place massive amounts of ads marking everything up and then when some one falls into their snare they just buy from the lowest available retail and ship directly to the buyer. This is another form of inventoryless selling although much different in nature and not at all nice for the consumer or much of anything really, it serves to clutter searches and keep ad rates higher but what can you do, just noticing these things because I have found that a lot of searching, a lot of time, and a lot of patience is the best way to find the best deals, so when I find roadblocks like I've described it's a little disheartening, there's not a lot of ways around in some cases.
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> > Still I'm always optimistic for the future...
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> > (wanted to leave this topic on a good note :)
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> > Robert
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> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, lists <Stuartlists@> wrote:
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> > > In article <jhaip2+cif5@>,
> > > Robert <oceanartscasino@> wrote:
> > > > WoW! I just bought that book last week, it was around $30 with shipping
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> > > Where did you buy it?
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> > > I just put
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> > > "Printed Circuit Boards, design, Fabrication, Assembly and Testing"
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> > > into Amazon and it drew a blank
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> > > --
> > > Stuart Winsor
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> > > Only plain text for emails
> > > http://www.asciiribbon.org
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