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Subject: 
Re: O'Reilly book news
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lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 23:02:45 GMT
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Suzanne D. Rich wrote:
[snip]
LEGO has shamelessly
added an Amazon.com _associate_code_ to the URLs! Not only does this look
"cheap" but I see no mention of where those dollars go. ...that's 15% taken from
every direct sale. Is this "global company" _so_ in need of cash?

Could you please explain further?  What is an "associate code" and how does it work?

/Eric McC/



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  Re: O'Reilly book news
 
(...) 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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