Re: Database market share 2004

Daniel Morgan wrote:

>An excellent book ... and yes it counts as book sales. But not when they
>gave it to you. Rather it was sold when the Oak Table purchased it from
>the publisher.

I don't know if this is the case, but often publishers will give authors books to sell. They also count shipments to bookstores as sales, I believe. If the books aren't sold, they are "remaindered" back to the publisher or wholesaler. So accounting for sales can be quite different than cost accounting which can be quite different than tax accounting, and published sales figures can be manipulated. AMS (supplier of books to Costco) got burned in a channel stuffing scandal.

Mark Bole wrote:

>BTW, I actually started reading the book and have found it quite
>educational, so if you get your hands on a copy, check it out!

Just finished the first chapter, especially liked the characterisation of RAC.

rkusenet wrote:

>ADVERTISEMENT
Read the charter, troll. And find about about fair use and posting things to usenet while you are at it.

jg

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