Bookshops in Cebu

[aLohaBby]

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wow! tnx a lot... =)

[sweetie_laur]

if you guys are looking to share books, try www.bookmooch.com. it's a site that allows you to get books for free, provided you maintain a ratio and send out a couple of books as well. there are lots of users from the philippines. you should try it; i've already gotten like 7 books for free =)

nindot ni dah! will check this out

[keyser_soze]

the comic/graphic novel section and sci-fi section sa powerbooks sm was meh. wala man gani foundation series ni isaac asimov, ka sikat ana, maypa NBS ayala. i want a fullybooked like sa the fort here in cebu. 5 floors of awesome. na "geekgasm" gyud ko pag first nako adto sa graphic novel/manga/scifi basement. naa pa gyud mga star wars figurines *drool* and also the witchblade compendium, i want.. tag 4000, hay wa tay wawarts. Pero naka palit gyud kog book, ubik by philip k. dick, coz i really felt i had to buy something, hehe.. bookstores should make you feel that way.. haha

[sweetie_laur]

5 floors of books? wow! didnt know nga naa diay na diri sa pinas... mas dako pa cguro than any library we have here noh?

[cheeeryl]

o. kanang Cebu Thrift House nga likod sa Gaisano Main. kung di lang ka arte nya kugihan mangukay (bookay ), daghan kang makit-ang libro nga abi nimo dili na gyud nimo mahipalgan...
barato pa gyud. they're open until mga 5:30pm usahay bisan til 6pm. sundays sirado sila.

[i.hide.you.seek]

^ holy cow,
really?
hmmmm,
ma silip nga..
salamat sa impormasyon

[tweaky_kiki]

Booksale... and that little bookstore beside potato corner is sm

[Book queen]

you can check out Cagnaan Booksales, they have branches in SM City Mall, Asiatown IT Park, Banilad Town Centre, and Don ramon Aboitiz Street. They have mostly new books but at low prices. Lots of scientific, technical, computer, medical, architecture, etc etc they recently opened a web site that is listing about 7000 titles.

[Book queen]

Just remembered also there is agood branch of Booksale opened in the basement of SM. reasonable prices for Secondhand books.

[Book queen]

Amazon shipping can be expensive, but if you log onto Amazon.co.uk you can sometimes see the message "also available secondhand" if you click on that you can see the same title that is offered by other booksellers for direct shipment and usually you can check the cost of shipment before purchase. If you do purchase, the payment goes through Amazon but the book comes direct from the bookseller who might be anywhere in the world (and it tells you where they are) Be sure to order by ISBN (international standard book number) so that you get the exact edition tha you need, especially if it is for school use.
From Philippine Booksellers like National Bookstore and Power Books, you can check the postage costs or courier costs, on their site and it is wise to do so, some booksellers err on the cautious side and make an unintentional "profit" on the carriage costs which is a pain, books are expensive enough. Check out the Cagnaanbooksales.com site, they charge the exact cost of courier and even link their page to the 2go courier site so that you can check the cost yourself. That's what I call transparency!