That is my experience with Amazon.com too. And Amazon's book reviews are
most helpful at buying time. That doesn't mean that looking information at
Amazon will restrict you to Amazon; you can read reviews at Amazon and buy
at BN.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert D. Nelson" <RDNELSON@co.centre.pa.us>
To: "Steve Wolfe" <steve@iboats.com>; "Vince Vielhaber" <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: R: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL book
> >> Heaven help you if you order it from Amazon with a real email
address.
> >>
> >> After about a year and a half of trying to get them to stop spamming
> >me, I
> >> simply gave up and dropped the email account.
> >
> >I've always used a disposable email address with them (and most other
> >companies I deal with). But you might want to take another look at
> >their privacy policy before you order. Not too long ago they declared
> >that their customer info is an asset.
>
> Customer info as an asset aside, I've never been spammed by amazon, and I
> use the same email as I'm using now. I'm more worried about limiting the
> number of credit cards I use online :)
>
> If nothing else, Amazon and BN both over large pools of reader reviews
that
> I usually scan before buying any book. Why not be informed, even slightly?
>
>
> Rob Nelson
> rdnelson@co.centre.pa.us
>
>
