Photo Courtesy of Lydiat

If you haven’t notice, it’s been around for some time:
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/indexohb.cgi?AREA=05

The website’s design might not look as impressive as Amazon or Barnes & Noble, but it surely delivers. At first, I was quite skeptical with their online shopping module, but the ease of use really beats the usual cart-based & complicated online stores.

If you are ordering more than RM300, the delivery is free of charge. Otherwise, a delivery fee of RM8 applies. If you consider parking at KLCC and doing your book-shopping at the Kinokuniya there, it probably cost you more than RM8.00. I just ordered a book yesterday, the staff confirmed that the book is on its way.

What I like about Kinokuniya is the selection of books available. If you can’t find it here, you probably can’t find it in any other bookstores. MPH don’t quite make the cut yet when it comes to the range of titles available on their shelves. By the way, MPH’s has got their online bookstore too- www.mphonline.com.my.

POPULAR still seems to be pretty much comfortable focusing on their retail fronts. At the point of this writing, they’re giving away RM30 vouchers.

Another prominent retail bookstore- Borders are still playing with HTML.

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