From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2004-12-21T06:24:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Ruby 2nd Ed in Canada?

Kevin,

Chapters.ca allows adding 3 stores to it's interface, and will show
availability for those.

Unfortunately, it's only 3. In Toronto, there are probably 10 that I
drive near in a a given week. Still easy enough to do 3, then swap in
another 3.

Checking 4 Chapters and the "World's Biggest Book Store", I came up
empty. I'd guess it's not yet in stores here. However, the site does
say "usually ships in 24 hours"

Funny enough, the first time I heard of Ruby was the 1st edition being
on dispay in a Chapters. They had 20 books on the end of an isle, and
my reaction was "What the %$% is Ruby". I was shamed that I hadn't
even heard of it, being the info-geek I am. To my further shame, it
was another 2 years before I bought the book though.

Nick

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:07:06 +0900, Kevin Proctor
<K_Proctor@sympaticospork.ca> wrote:
> Just a short question here, are there any Canucks that've found the new
> PickAxe in bookstores yet?  I've been looking but it's not in any
> Chapters or even any of the tech book stores I frequent here in Ottawa.
>   The other Pragmatic Press books are fairly widely available(I got
> Automation myself) but not the big dog.
> 
> I notice that it's available online from Chapters but was curious if
> it's actually being sold in stores anywhere in the country.
> 
> Thanks for any info...
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 


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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg