VanLUG Email Archive
Geoff Nordli (geoff@gnaa.net)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:20:21 -0700
If you are looking for computer books check out:
www.oabooks.com
they are in edmonton, alberta and I have ordered several books from them.
I normally recieve them in approx. 3 days
You also beat the PST, and no I don't work for them.
geoff nordli
Blaine Cook <lattice@altern.org> wrote in message
news:news:Pine.LNX.4.10.9905061548590.8129-100000@localhost...
> In some recent messages about finding linux books, several people have
> mentioned that they looked at chapters. This is a bit of a political
> thing, but I think it's relevant, given the nature of linux.
>
> I would side with all those that recommended Multimedia (on broadway just
> east of cambie for those who don't know), and add my own recommendation of
> the Granville Book Company for getting books. It seems a bit strange to
> side with the home-grown, independent OS, then get books about it from
> a place like Chapters. Multimedia and the Granville Book Co. have been
> very supportive of the Vancouver computing community for some time, and
> I think it would be a shame to lose these great resources to a very
> impersonal store like chapters.
>
> Sure, they'll order in anything you want, but so will Multimedia/Granville
> Book Co/Other independent booksellers. And when you buy from the smaller
> guys, it actually impacts upon someone's livelihood, rather than lining
> the pockets of some already very wealthy people.
>
> Not to mention the fact that you get 10% off as a vanlug member to at
least
> the granville book co, and probably several other like places =)
>
> well, that's my 2p.
>
> blaine
>
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