Gord Sellar wrote:
Subject: RE: Score!
>This is all very odd. You can usually find a good number of the Brit
>paperbacks imported in most big bookstores here, and you used to be able to
>get any Banks SF you wanted at _Nebula_, the local speciality store, before
>it closed. The non-SF is not so rare here either, I've seen 3 or 4 titles
>in used stores in the last year, and picked up _The Business_ for later
>reading this weekend.
>But even new, you can get lots of Banks at a place like Chapters or Indigo,
>which are both megabookstore-type places here in Montreal . . . so while
>I'm tempted to ask "Is it just that Barnes & Noble is the enemy of good
>readin'?", I think that's too simplistic a reason. But why is it so hard to
>find in the US and yet not so hard in Canada . . . or, at least, in
>Montreal?
Different markets.
For example, we often get British versions instead of American ones, like
Nebula had for the Discworld series.
Both Chapters and Indigo have web sites like Amazon's. With the going
exchange rate, you might want to check them out. (Add .ca to the
bookstore's name)
Jean-Louis Couturier
