The prices of books in South Africa
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Amazon price: $80 ~ ZAR 800 Cheapest price in SA: ZAR 1100 Most expensive in SA: ZAR 1700 And the government wonders why we have such a high illiteracy rate! :sigh:
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))I bet we have more expensive books than you. From a month's minimum wage one can buy exactly 9 (nine) brand new copies of Stephen King's 'It' in Romania. How many can you buy in SA?
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Amazon price: $80 ~ ZAR 800 Cheapest price in SA: ZAR 1100 Most expensive in SA: ZAR 1700 And the government wonders why we have such a high illiteracy rate! :sigh:
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Books (at least the ones that I read) are pretty cheap here in India. I am lucky that way. :)
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Amazon price: $80 ~ ZAR 800 Cheapest price in SA: ZAR 1100 Most expensive in SA: ZAR 1700 And the government wonders why we have such a high illiteracy rate! :sigh:
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Maybe, or this may simply indicate that 10/1 is not the real ZAR/$ rate, or that Amazon doesn't think it will be by the time they pay for their books.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Maybe, or this may simply indicate that 10/1 is not the real ZAR/$ rate, or that Amazon doesn't think it will be by the time they pay for their books.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
Maybe, or this may simply indicate that 10/1 is not the real ZAR/$ rate
The ZAR 800 was a guesstimate on my side, yesterday it was 9.50, apparently its close to 10.50 now... :(
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I bet we have more expensive books than you. From a month's minimum wage one can buy exactly 9 (nine) brand new copies of Stephen King's 'It' in Romania. How many can you buy in SA?
I think about 10 used copies... but we are not talking about fiction junk now. I mean real books, with stuff that you can learn from.
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Amazon price: $80 ~ ZAR 800 Cheapest price in SA: ZAR 1100 Most expensive in SA: ZAR 1700 And the government wonders why we have such a high illiteracy rate! :sigh:
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Well the price has to factor in the various insurances surely? - insurance for driver/postal service strike - insurance for hijackings - insurance for stray bullets - insurance for stray elephants ;P Overall though can you live a good lifestyle on a senior programmer salary there? I did work in SA as a junior web programmer for a short time around y2k - the salaries seemed pretty ok back then.
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I bet we have more expensive books than you. From a month's minimum wage one can buy exactly 9 (nine) brand new copies of Stephen King's 'It' in Romania. How many can you buy in SA?
blackjack2150 wrote:
Stephen King's 'It'
It's about R100 / $10. Technical books - which is what I'm presuming Leppie is talking about - are extremely! expensive.
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Well the price has to factor in the various insurances surely? - insurance for driver/postal service strike - insurance for hijackings - insurance for stray bullets - insurance for stray elephants ;P Overall though can you live a good lifestyle on a senior programmer salary there? I did work in SA as a junior web programmer for a short time around y2k - the salaries seemed pretty ok back then.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Ashley van Gerven wrote:
- insurance for driver/postal service strike - insurance for hijackings - insurance for stray bullets - insurance for stray elephants
Think these are the reasons why Amazon will no longer ship to the SA Post Office!
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I think about 10 used copies... but we are not talking about fiction junk now. I mean real books, with stuff that you can learn from.
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))Lol, with that it's even worse because by the time a technical book is translated, the technology that it covers is already old news. For example I entered a library not long ago and asked if they had anything about .NET. There were less than 5 books which all covered .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 and were at premium prices. I walked out with a bitter taste. Thank God internet is ridiculously cheap here compared to the general cost of living, so we have at least access to online resources.
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blackjack2150 wrote:
Stephen King's 'It'
It's about R100 / $10. Technical books - which is what I'm presuming Leppie is talking about - are extremely! expensive.
Cheers, Simon > company:: Broken Keyboards Software > VS add for delicious BKS-Delicious > skype :: SimonMStewart > CV :: PDF
SimonS wrote:
blackjack2150 wrote: Stephen King's 'It' It's about R100 / $10
It: $21 A thick technical book: $40-$60 Minimum wage per month: $192 :((
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Well the price has to factor in the various insurances surely? - insurance for driver/postal service strike - insurance for hijackings - insurance for stray bullets - insurance for stray elephants ;P Overall though can you live a good lifestyle on a senior programmer salary there? I did work in SA as a junior web programmer for a short time around y2k - the salaries seemed pretty ok back then.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Ashley van Gerven wrote:
the salaries seemed pretty ok back then
Programmer salaries are generally good, and thats the only reason why I can afford a book of R1100, not that I buy many at all, maybe 1 every 2-3 years.
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Well the price has to factor in the various insurances surely? - insurance for driver/postal service strike - insurance for hijackings - insurance for stray bullets - insurance for stray elephants ;P Overall though can you live a good lifestyle on a senior programmer salary there? I did work in SA as a junior web programmer for a short time around y2k - the salaries seemed pretty ok back then.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Overall though can you live a good lifestyle on a senior programmer salary there?
Yes, yes you can. Only PITA is getting electronics and paying for online services. Even PayPal didn't use to work for South Africans. As a web techy that really annoyed me. I don't think there is an iTunes store yet either (I use iTunes, works for me.) "A world without borders."
cheers, Paul M. Watson.