Any decent computer book stores in GTA?

[Russell]

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At 05:56 PM 8/13/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>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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