Re: Wanted, urgent, ASAP. This book _as_a_file_

"Steve Bell" <stephenb_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<5ksUb.19150$9U5.1055949_at_news20.bellglobal.com>...
> The odds are staggering Joel.
>
> What I meant to say was, if you buy a book and there's a problem with the
> CD, you deal with the people that sold you the book. It's not a newsgroup
> issue.

First sentence agreed, but I think there should be airing in the newsgroup of bogus books/cd's, and obviously there is a lag time for the publisher to make good on it (especially if the publisher is on a different continent). It's really frustrating to go through a book, then start final preparation for an imminent test and discover the cd with the online testing software is bogus.

Of course, asking for the PDF might be a bit much, if it is taken as an indicator that some intellectual property violations are about to happen.

>
> Steve
>
> "Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message
> news:91884734.0402031753.3f1508d8_at_posting.google.com...
> > "Steve Bell" <stephenb_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:<Ew8Rb.21262$Kg6.172941_at_news20.bellglobal.com>...
> > > Hi Tahir,
> > >
> > > If you purchased the book, and the CD is corrupted, the publishers will
> > > replace it.
> > > The same is true for Backup & Recovery(1z0-025).
> > >
> > > You must have really bad luck if every book you purchase has corrupt
> CD's
> > > and you ask this group for free copies. Imagine the odds.
> >
> > IIRC (it was a while ago), I had the same troubles with the same
> > books. And I even posted about it. Imagine the odds of that.
> >
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=91884734.0305281545.7f079cb3%40posting.
> google.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
> >
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > "Tahir" <tahir.saleem_at_btopenworld.com> wrote in message
> > > news:36ae0722.0401240513.7773ba07_at_posting.google.com...
> > > > Wanted, urgent, ASAP. This book _as_a_file_ :
> > > > SYBEX, OCA/OCP: Oracle 8i DBA Study Guide by Biju Thomas, Doug Stuns
> > > > (1z0-023) and the same for Backup & Recovery(1z0-025)
> > > >
> > > > I have purchased the book but the CD is corrupted, cannot get any
> > > > files from the CD at all....Looking to get the PDF version of the
> > > > above book.
> > > >
> > > > Much appreciated
> > > >
> > > > Tahir.Saleem_at_btopenworld.com
> >
> > jg
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jg

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