Klarinet Archive - Posting 000068.txt from 1998/12

From: "Cox, Graeme" <Graeme.Cox@-----.nz>
Subj: RE: [kl] Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:43:01 -0500

Roger Shilcock wrote...

I think Graeme must have made an odd typo.

No typing mistake. The library catalogue entry is...

http://library.ccc.govt.nz/htbin/dbsearch?db=MARION&format=FULL&kwd=LN+'ACH-
8571

so you can surf there and check!

As we live as far from the book publisher as it is possible to be, transport
costs and a chain of wholesalers and a small local market and our goods and
services tax all conspire to keep the price of some imported goods reaonably
high. However, competition from Amazon.com and the like is having a great
effect in keeping book prices down.

However -- the $NZ is currently worth about US 50 cents so the once you add
12.5% GST the price is about the same.

The compensation, of course, is that New Zealand is a GREAT place to live!
How about coming to visit some day soon. (BTW, we make the worlds best lager
(Steinlager) and much better white wine than the French! I could go on and
on, but I must go to the library and borrow the book.)

Cheers,
Graeme Cox
Christchurch, New Zealand
Graeme.Cox@-----.nz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Shilcock
> [SMTP:roger.shilcock@-----.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 1998 12:10 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet (Was Absolutes)
>
> The dollar price I have is $19.95 for the paperback. Is that better??
> I think Graeme must have made an odd typo.
> I have the book. Some of the chapters, particularly those by Jo
> Reese-Davies and Pamela Weston, are written so as to have an extremely
> high information density, which may be off-putting.
> Roger Shilcock
>
>
>

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