[scribus] Waiting for the Manual in the UK

[Thomas Zastrow]

William F. Maddock schrieb:
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>> From: Tornóci László <torlasz at net.sote.hu>
>> Sent: May 1, 2009 5:48 AM
>> To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Waiting for the Manual in the UK
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>> Keith Abraham wrote:
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>>> Has anyone residing in the UK received their copy of the manual yet?
>>> I ordered my copy in January and I've still not received it. I gathered 
>>> from the Scribus website that I should have received my copy by the 10th
>>> of April but here it is the 1st May and I'm still waiting. Also, unless 
>>> I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any further delivery 
>>> updates on the Scribus site.
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>>> What's more FLES Books don't respond to my emails so I'm beginning to 
>>> smell a rat in that quarter. They boast of having "ethical practices" 
>>> but in reality it appears that don't practise what they preach. 
>>> Certainly not a firm I could recommend to anyone.
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>> I'll second to that. My credit card was charged on Dec 7, 2008. I 
>> haven't received the book yet, almost half a year later. I am patient, I 
>> understand the problems described on this list, but half a year should 
>> be enough for an honest company to solve the problems and deliver the book.
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> Perhaps, in the future, keeping in mind cases such as these, it could become possible for the scribus team to purchase a few copies themselves (as a group, not so much the individuals) to pass out to users who fall through the cracks, so to speak.
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As one of the co- authors, I'm also still waiting for my copy ;-(