online booksellers in Russia

[Howard Turner]

If you've got a specific book in mind, you can usefully start with www.findbook.ru, which will automatically search the catalogues of 27 online booksellers.  (But some will not send books outside their own city, never mind abroad.)

It's an interesting question as to why there are are so many online booksellers in Russia, when there's really only Amazon in the US/UK.  Distribution problems have something to do with it, but even so there are rather a lot of them serving M/SPb.

I tend to end up using ozon.ru out of inertia.  If you want academic-type books, www.mippbooks.com can be very useful.  (Nowadays, an awful lot of books are printed with very small print-runs so they disappear rather quickly.)

Hope this helps!

Howard Turner


--- On Sat, 28/11/09, Tatyana Buzina <tbuzina at YANDEX.RU> wrote:

> From: Tatyana Buzina <tbuzina at YANDEX.RU>
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] online booksellers in Russia
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Date: Saturday, 28 November, 2009, 10:42
> Hello,
> for new ones, there are probably too many to list. A good
> place to start would be
> www.ozon.ru
> A large selection, decent prices, on the downside, they
> have a nasty habit of advertising items they don't have,
> that applies especially to older books which they sell
> sometimes as well.
> 
> then there are these:
> 
> www.biblion.ru
> www.colibri.ru (large caliber bookstore as they call
> themselves)
> www.bolero.ru
> 
> Every large bookstore has an online sales division (for
> instance, http://www.biblio-globus.ru/), and almost
> every publisher as well, so if you are looking for a
> specific book, it might be easier to type in the title in a
> search engine and take it from there.
> 
> For old books, there is
> www.alib.ru
> it's not a bookseller as such, it's a site for various
> booksellers to advertise their inventory. You can find both
> individuals and bookstores selling there. I buy extensively
> from them, with reasonable caution, you can avoid being
> swindled although it happens sometimes. You can also post
> your own ads if you are looking for a specific book.
> Although this is more risky than buying from their permanent
> members. 
> 
> There is also 
> www.oldbooks.ru
> they have a smaller inventory but they are reliable, at
> least I bought from them a few times, and everything went
> well. 
> 
> Hope that helps,
> with best regards,
> Tatyana
> 
> 28.11.09, 02:57, "Christina Manetti" <manetti.christina at GMAIL.COM>:
> 
> > Dear list members,
> >  
> >  Does anyone have suggestions for online
> booksellers of new or used books in
> >  Russia? Preferably ones already known to be
> reliable, but I'd be glad to
> >  make a note of sellers who are as yet "untested"
> as well.
> >  
> >  Thank you,
> >  Christina Manetti
> >  
> > 
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