Indigo cutting back Linux magazines?

[Peter Hiscocks]

The News & Cigar store near the Chester subway station on the Danforth
(north side of Danforth, just west of Chester), has many Linux magazines for
sale.

Indigo has now passed the stage where it's not even worth looking for books
and magazines on Linux. Their mathematics and science section is still worth
a (brief) look. However, even that is significantly inferior to the math and
science collection in Book City, especially the one in the Annex.

Anyone here remember the Coles stores? In some cases they were huge, and as
far as I could see, there was not one book worth reading. Cole's Business
Plan: sell cheap, remaindered books that no one reads. Maybe Indigo is
heading in that direction.

Small bookstores such as Book City and Pages show that they can be
competitive by intelligent selection of the books they stock.

Vote with your dollars.

Peter




On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Steve wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but for over a month the Indigo store that USED to have 
> lots of Linux magazines (ones with discs) has been nearly empty of Linux 
> mags! Haven't seen a single copy of Linux Format or Linux Magazine for 
> instance. Has anyone else noticed this? Don't worry, because there's still 
> tons of Windows mags... and even Mac mags.
> 
> While I'm on a rant, I was in Staples too and they even have Windows mags 
> and Mac mags. No Linux mags though. I'm sure it's a coincidence... it's not 
> like MS would ever pressure companies in any sort anti-competition way... 
> nah. I'm just dreaming. Even Shoppers Drug Marts carry Windows AND Mac 
> mags... no Linux.
> 
> -Steve.
> -- 
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