>there are 5 or 10 others, but none available til october 1.

I must be doing something wrong, then. I go to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ats-query-page/002-9022510-0598667 (Amazon's query page), enter "visual foxpro" in the Subject field, and get back 23 hits, two of which are for Microsoft books on VFP 6.0, and no others on the new version.

Could you please tell me the steps you use to dig up those October release books, because I'd like to order some of them.