I went to amazon and ordered the book new for just $23.09. It Didn't mention anything about a CD being included, but I hope it does include one. I also hope this isn't the 30 day trial version that I downloaded from daz last year. I did manage to extend the 30 days into 60 days by not quiting the program and would probably still be using that version today if that damn power outage hadn't shut everything down in my area!

By the way - the trial version was the first time I used Carrara 6 and it is really great. It is still so much like the Ray Dream Studio of old that the learning curve for me was very short and all the new features were easy to learn too.