My wife and I visited the local Borders bookstore to see if we could get a good deal on books. After all, many of the books were on sale for 25% off since they are going out of business.
While at Borders, I jumped onto my iPhone to see how the prices compared at Amazon. I noticed that Borders was charging List Price on their books, and then applying 25% plus local sales tax.
My hunch was that it would be less expensive to buy online at Amazon, especially when spending $25 or more in order to qualify for their free “Super Saver Shipping.”
Because of this, I decided not to buy anything at Borders. While at Borders I took a few photos of the front and back of 3 books (including the price tags) for further comparison later.
When I got home, I crunched some numbers to see if it really would be less expensive to buy on Amazon. Here’s what I found: [continue reading…]
Nginx 0.9.5 was released earlier today at nginx.org. I used this source package to compile a version for use on Microsoft Windows 64-bit editions. It was built on Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit using Cygwin.
