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om stuurde. Ter informatie: een pond is zo’n anderhalve euro.
To: Amazon.co.uk
Re: Books
2.1.2004

LS,

This has been the last time I shall make use of your ‘services’. In order to inform my university colleagues of your conditions of selling, I shall publish the last bill I received from you without further comment. This bill refers to the little book (74 pages) on Baudrillard and The Millennium by Horrocks:

1. On the back of the book the publishers’ price: 3.99 pounds

Your ‘our’ price: 4.68 pounds

Plus added tax: 6.68 pounds

Shipping: 4.98 pounds

Subtotal: 9.66 pounds

Plus added tax, order total: 10.24 pounds

This little notice, placed in a Dutch university journal, should inform them of the advantages of the good old bookshop. Long live intellectual capitalism!

Dr. R.J.Sierksma, faculteit Bouwkunde, afdeling architectuur

Boekhandel

Een brief in een brief. Als een pleidooi voor de ouderwetse boekhandels en bibliotheken wil ik mijn collegae en de studenten graag deelgenoot maken van het onderstaande schrijven dat ik naar amazon.com stuurde. Ter informatie: een pond is zo’n anderhalve euro.
To: Amazon.co.uk
Re: Books
2.1.2004

LS,

This has been the last time I shall make use of your ‘services’. In order to inform my university colleagues of your conditions of selling, I shall publish the last bill I received from you without further comment. This bill refers to the little book (74 pages) on Baudrillard and The Millennium by Horrocks:

1. On the back of the book the publishers’ price: 3.99 pounds

Your ‘our’ price: 4.68 pounds

Plus added tax: 6.68 pounds

Shipping: 4.98 pounds

Subtotal: 9.66 pounds

Plus added tax, order total: 10.24 pounds

This little notice, placed in a Dutch university journal, should inform them of the advantages of the good old bookshop. Long live intellectual capitalism!

Dr. R.J.Sierksma, faculteit Bouwkunde, afdeling architectuur