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In lugnet.robotics, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> [...]
> See for yourselves. The link is straight off the legomindstorms.com main
> page.
If your browser doesn't support JavaScript (Lynx, W3M, etc.) or if you're
running a browser that does, but you have it disabled, you won't be able to
load the page. But if you still want to view the page, here's the page's
actual URL (double-checked with Lynx and with NN minus JS):
http://www.legomindstorms.com/home/books/index.asp
But for the full "WTF?" effect, simply click there from the homepage. LUGNET
and other in-the-AFOL-community webpages have Amazon.com associates links for
the same two books, but it's shocking to see TLC itself do this, especially
after it made the stink with O'Reilly last summer. This has got to be the
most bizarrely unexpected thing I've seen on an official LEGO site yet! :)
--Todd
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| (...) I don't really understand how the associates stuff works: if no one collects the referal fee, doesn't Amazon just keep it as extra profit for themselves? Certainly the authors don't collect a smaller royalty if a referal fee is given? So I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) What happened (apparently) is that LEGO now has their cake and eats it too. This makes me sick. I just discovered their page devoted to (quote) "some 'introductory' Books about LEGO MINDSTORMS." There I see two books, Jonathan's O'Reilly and (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego) !
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