From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-10-31T05:53:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5952] Re: Sorry, What is Ruby Book

Gabriel Lima <Gabriel.Lima@enea.se> writes:

> Hi there. I recently ran across a similar problem.
> I pre-ordered "Programming Ruby", from amazon.co.uk, but the days passed,
> and a couple of days ago, I posted a question in this newsgroup, and found
> out that the book already was out.  So I e-mailed amazon.co.uk about this,
> got no answer within two days, and then cancelled the order and ordered it
> again thru amazon.com instead. The book is now in the mail and I am waiting
> anxiously.

I asked Addison-Wesley about this, and they expressed some
surprise. They're looking in to it, but that involves their local rep
talking with their UK rep talking with Amazon UK, etc etc, so it may
be a day or two.

Regards


Dave