python a bust?

[Alex Martelli]

Michele Simionato wrote:
   ...
> Unfortunately I am in Italy now, and we don't have Amazon.it or
> something equivalent yet (I am hoping I am wrong ...)

No, you're not.  We do have place such as gorilla.it for online books.  Not 
particularly good.

But this (theoretically freemarket...) government passed a law forbidding 
discounts of more than 15% on books, basically to impede the chances of 
supermarket chains (such as Coop) and large bookstore chains (such as 
Feltrinelli), which happen to be mostly left-ish wing, to compete with 
small independent bookstores, which happen to be mostly right-ish wing.  As 
a side effect the chance of there ever being an amazon.it was destroyed. 

Try amazon.de, .fr or .uk if you're in a hurry -- I normally still order at 
amazon.com, wait a while, but get a bargain despite mail costs, and good 
and wide choice too.


Alex