Any decent computer book stores in GTA?
Kush
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Sun Aug 13 21:56:23 UTC 2006
People like me mostly buy from bookpool.com etc since chapters/indigo is
so costly. Even with the postal/courier costs, book buying online is
cheaper and now with O'reilly's safari model one can read quite a few of
the latest books.
If one buys online from chapters, its still cheaper than buying from the
store itself.
Maybe thats the reason why they had to reduce floorspace for the
technical section. Consumers are going the online way.
If there was more open competition and maybe specialised bookstores
maybe we would have better and cheaper books(the same rates as in the
US). The problem in Toronto is that there is no competition and courier
companies like UPS/fedex charge a lot via their brokers who sit to do
simple customs paperwork but nobody objects. Most of the time the broker
charges are more than what the govt gets thru custom duties.
Another thing reducing the number of bookstores carrying technical books
is the demand from the central library of Toronto ie the TPL. TPL drives
a significant portion of the book demand here.
I think we should have some sort of library for the TLUG people on the
lines of bookcrossing.com or a book bank or we should have a section on
the TLUG website which lists where all one can see the latest technical
books (e.g. university department libraries or college libraries or govt
libraries or company libraries), their timings, membership details, some
sort of rating etc etc
Kush
James Knott wrote:
> This afternoon, I dropped into the local Chapters and was appalled at
> how much the technical book section had been decimated, since I last
> visited a couple of weeks ago. They're really dumbed down what used to
> be a good selection. Is there any decent technical book store left?
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