Buying IT literature in foreign online stores

Question

Books

Good day, dear IT colleagues. What online bookstores can you recommend with an acceptable price and normal delivery to Russia? How is Amazon doing with it now? I found a post on Habré in 2009, which talked about the cost of delivery = the cost of the book, which is not particularly encouraging.

Answer 1

You can take it on Amazon, combined delivery, preferably 4-5 books, then the shipping cost is evenly distributed among the books and becomes not expensive. Choose the cheapest option for 2-3 weeks, in practice everything will come much earlier.
In general, I recommend buying an Amazon Kindle and downloading it right away - if you read mostly text without illustrations, then there is practically no difference with paper. But you can always carry and read many different books at the same time.

Answer 2

To be honest, after the advent of the Internet for 2 rubles a megabyte, I stopped buying books, everything is too affordable.

Answer 3

I advise you to use the service www.bookfinder.com , the price in different stores, including delivery, is calculated even in rubles

Answer 4

Maybe betterworldbooks.com will suit you , though I haven’t bought it myself, I’m just looking at it. Prices are about the same as on Amazon, there are also used books, shipping costs are within reason. True, as I understand it, delivery by regular mail, and can be quite long.

Answer 5

Try searching for the relevant literature on packtpub.com. For several years I have been buying in this store, there are no problems with delivery (books are sent from the UK) and the delivery price is not very high (about £7 (~330 rubles)).

Answer 6

I buy from Amazon. Expensive, but given that I order 2-3 books there a year, the soul of the toad. But delivery is literally 3 days or so right to the door of the apartment.

Answer 7

I used to buy on amazon.co.uk, but there were problems with delivery (greedy ups or ems + our mail) and most of the goods are more expensive.
Now I started buying on the main amazon.com.
When ordering somewhere around $ 150, the delivery cost $ 50, but it was DHL delivery to the threshold of the house and in 4 days.
P.S.
1. There is a website www.flazx.us/ , there are a lot of books posted there, you can read before buying.
2. It is better to buy books from the Amazon itself, delivery from other sellers can be extremely long and not everyone will send goods to the CIS.

Answer 8

Kindle changed his mind about buying, reading technical literature with code examples on it is not very convenient.