Computer books

[Paul King]

Maybe you are being facetious (I can't quite tell), but I don't think you need 
to be against deregulation or anything else. Just go outside your biases and 
see what is really there. Go visit chapter's. Can you find a K&R book? No. Can 
you find Stroustrup's C++ book? No. Books on Kylix? No. Can you find Windows 
For Dummies? Yes. .NET programming? Yes. TCP/IP? No, unless it's published by 
Cisco, or written by Richard Stevens. Anything that will sell quickly.

Canada Computer Books, (parent company of Toronto Computer Books and 
Mississauga Computer Books) used to sell the "No" books in siginificant 
quantity. They served an audience of serious programmers. They sold books that 
you couldn't find at Chapter's. And I don't think it was the acquisition by 
Indigo that dumbed down the selection, but the demise of Canada Computer Books, 
which were never that big a business to begin with.

There are now no serious competitors left, unless you count PC Maniak. And 
don't count on finding too many "serious" books there, although I admit that 
there are many surprises there, and still worth the odd visit. BTW, their shop 
on College street is now out of business, leaving only their outlet near 
Matheson and Tomken in Mississauga. Going by  my last visit, I thought their 
selection at College Street looked too much like Chapter's. And they were 
selling junky electronics just before they went out of business.

Did anyone purchase one of their Pentium 4 Motherboards (original Perntium IV 
socket) they were selling for $25.00 before they closed their doors?

Paul King

On 14 Jan 2005 at 22:37, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> James Knott wrote:
> 
> >  Now most of the retail book industry is controlled by one company, 
> > which has resulted in a much poorer book selection and in the process is also
> > hurting the Canadian book industry.
> 
> You seem to be against PC and globalization. And deregularization or 
> something like that. Etc... Not nice. Bigger brother will remember that.
> 
> zb.
> 
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