Buying Books
Old selling model has a lot to learn from Clicks model of Amazon. I received my another copy of "Joy of Cooking 75th edition" at my Bhopal Residence. (33 $ including shipping ). The first one I gifted to my Sister who is a wonderful cook.

I have been searching for this book since past 2 year in bookstores and in Indiatimes website. This list includes Walden, Crossword and some of the oldest prestigious names in Book Sellers in Hyderabad. Some of these bookstores promised me to get this book for me next time I am there. They even noted down my mobile number. I offered them an advance which they promptly refused. Also They did not got this book for me niether did they call me even to tell me that they were not able to procure it for me. Why dont these bookstores grow up.

Lately i got to know even Tom Kyte's Expert One on One is not available in Pune Markets. I already have my copy since its Wrox edition was released. Now a days it comes from Apress.


Such a SHAME!!! and a HUGE waste of my time looking for the book in the bookstores. I find my time better spent searching for books in Amazon for HardCopy or in Books24x7 for online reading. (Capgemini has a tieup with SumTotal which provides this service for all the Capgemini employees).

What i bought from BookStores



However I was able to find the book "Stay Hungry Stay Foolish" by Rashmi Bansal. She has a fabulous blog- Youth Curry and as far as i can tell the book is also worth it. ANother book i purchased from store was "The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch". I have thoroughly enjoyed and also taught my niece the ALICE software which is Much much much better version of BLOCKS she was using earlier in her school. these two and a kiddeez book (you know the kind where we have Animals, Alphabets,Fruits,Home objects) to teach my son some language. (FYI He picked the books himself in crossword He is 2.5 years noisey brat )
All this I bought with my CROSSWORD coupan as I got awarded the Quarterly Best performer for FSSBU. (The award was handed over by Bill Schreiner -VP Capgemini) .