My newsletter originally said the 6 of jan, so Eovia must have extended the offer. Yes, Eovia and others continue to screw their customer base by not including a high quality printed manual. They tell you to print the included .pdf file or buy an after market publication. This would be tolerable if they would lower the price of their software, but the companies do not do that. Now all the banner wavers for eovia and other companies will now jump up and say what a great bargain Carrara is or such and such software is,but that is beside the point. These companies have stopped including the manual for the sake of profit. They then leave the customer to spend extra monies to secure printed instructions.