Saturday, May 17, 2008

Reading in Pune

Pune has a decent number of options for books. I am a fan of the 'International Book House' at Garware corner near Deccan Gymkhana. Much better and personal than Crosswords which is just a mall of books, so only titles that bring in money there.

Piracy for software and books is very much the norm here. Western prices converted to INR make them too costly. If anti-piracy was strictly enforced, Microsoft would die in the user market and Linux will be king. So, it is kind of tolerated as even if 5% take in an original one, it is still decent revenues.

Another way is the pavement stalls which come up at different spots as well.

There must be a few more good sources but have no idea where in Pune (camp most likely)

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