Any decent computer book stores in GTA?

Kush be_a_sport-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
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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