Eight days ago i ordered some manuals from Intel. It was for free...
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/
To order you have to write a mail, fax or make a phone call.
Here are the SKUs and the titles:
248966 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual 1
253665 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 1: Basic Architecture 1
253666 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A: Instruction Set Reference, A-M 1
253667 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 2B: Instruction Set Reference, N-Z 1
253668 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1 1
253669 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide, Part 2
I ordered it at 17. September. But it just needed a little bit more then a week to be shipped from USA to Austria!
Great! On the same day of arrival I also get the third confirmation over mail, that it is on the way, but the packages was already here
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Subject: Hard Copy Literature
Sent: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:15:05 -0400
was read on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:42:46 -0400
Total Number of Packages: 1
Total Weight: 14.0 LBS (6,38 Kilo)