Computer books

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> Paul King wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Further on this.  Chapters used to carry a selection of 
telecommunications engineering level books, which I'd never seen in the 
Computer Books stores.  Those books have disappeared from Chapters too, 
so the loss of the those Computer Book stores was the reason for that 
disappearance.

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