Last week I ‘ve been to Russia on vacation. Moscow and St. Petersburg are beautiful cities with lots of things to see. Besides the usual sightseeing, I went to several large book stores to browse computer books.

Here “s what I ‘ve noticed:

In programming languages section the leaders are: C++, Visual Basic and hellip; Delphi.Large book stores have a couple of dozens Java books on the shelves. These are usually translations of western books published a couple of years ago.I was surprised by the large number of books on hacking and data protection. Half of these books are written by the Russian authors.Computer books are expensive there (relative to salaries of programmers): an average price is $10 USD. They use cheap paper (similar to our pocket books). Can you imagine the luxury Deitel ‘s book on Java printed in black and white on a cheap paper? I ‘ve seen it hellip;Prentice Hall and Sams are the leading publishers there.

In general, all book stores have great selections of fiction/travel/culinary/children “s and other books. They “ve made a great progress during the last 15 years.