On: Learning About Statistical Learning

[llimllib]

abebooks.com is usually the cheapest place to buy textbooks, you can often get the softcover international editions.

[Shamiq → llimllib]

Isn't the buying and selling of those international versions questionably legal in the United States? (Assuming OP is from the US).

[briansmith → Shamiq]

What's illegal about buying or selling books?

The publishers have a contract with distributors in those poorer countries that prohibits those distributors from distributing the books here. But, anybody who DOESN'T have a contract with the book publisher can buy from the distribitor and sell them here, unless their local laws prohibit that. And, nothing in OUR laws prohibits buying them--by now it's well established that you cannot really enforce laws against buying books.

Do you want the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page.

[llimllib → briansmith]

> Do you want the international edition? I have a few of them, and they are better than nothing. But, the paper is so thin that I get distracted by the words/figures on the other side of the page.

Yeah, I don't buy them for myself either; I just know they're wicked cheap.

[Herring → Shamiq]

Add it to the list of 'questionably legal' things I do online.