O'Reilly Network: Acquiring Out-of-Print Books

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Date: February 2002
From: Doug Porter
To: Ask Tim
Subject: Acquiring Out-of-Print Books

Is there any where to purchase out-of-print O'Reilly books? Specifically, I am interested in getting a copy of MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, 3rd Edition.

There are multiple sources of used books (including computer books) on the Web. For example:

There's a used copy of MH & xmh for sale on amazon.com right now for $9.99.
Bibliofind has multiple copies for sale.
Alibris is also a great source for used books, though they don't happen to have a copy of MH & xmh at this time.

The book is also available for free download from a number of sites on the Net. When we took the book out of print, we put it out under the GNU GPL. Googling for the title (http://google.com) will find you lots of links.

See what other O'Reilly titles are freely available online.
Visit our Open Books Project site.

The master copy of MH & xmh that Jerry Peek, the author, still maintains is at http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/. And here's Jerry's list of mirrors:

Updated online edition:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ (Western USA)
http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/mirrors/mh-book/ (Eastern USA)
http://www.funet.fi/index/MH/book/ (Finland)
ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/book/index.htm (Western USA)
ftp://uiarchive.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/mail/mh/book/index.htm (Central USA)
ftp://ftp.gw.com/pub/unix/mail/mh/book/index.htm (Eastern USA)
ftp://ftp.imag.fr/pub/archive/mail/mh/book/index.htm (France)
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/index/MH/book/index.htm (Finland)

Original third edition, no updates:

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/mh/ (Northeastern USA)
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/freebooks/mh/index.htm (Northeastern USA)

Tim

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