Online HK bookstore for Western books?

[djwebb2004]

Hello. I want to order a pile of books in English from Amazon, but I have found out to my cost that parcels arriving in Kunming with an address label in English are sent straight back to country of origin. So when I order from Amazon I have to get them hand delivered by courier, which doubles the cost. Is there a HK bookshop that stocks most Western titles? The only one I can find is www.cp1897.com, but that is for Chinese titles. I figure a HK bookstore would have a lower postal charge and would handle an address written in Chinese characters better.

[skylee]

cp1897 also carries English titles, though it may not have what you want. Take a look -> http://www.cp1897.com.hk/jsp/cover/index_english.jsp

[johnd]

I never had a problem with parcels addressed in English (or pinyin I suppose) delivered in Shenzhen. But they won't deliver parcels to your home - you get a delivery note and you have to go to the post office to collect the parcel. Is it possible that you didn't recognise the delivery note which is all in Chinese?

[skylee]

Also take a look at Kelly and Walsh, which also seems to cater for orders for delivery outside Hong Kong.

[djwebb2004]

No, I would be able to understand a delivery note in Chinese. If I didn't I would ask my gateman what it was all about. Shenzhen is probably set up better for this sort of stuff than Kunming. I ordered some books from Ireland on the Irish language, and they pinged back and forth 3 times between China and Ireland, and in the end I sent the bookshop a PDF address label in Chinese, which worked. In the process the packaging was damaged and so I had to repackage and pay another 69 euros for the postage!!!

[onebir]

Have you had any luck with the HK bookstores?

[Rincewind]

There's plenty book stores in HK that stock English books. I'll be in Macau on the 1st and HK on the 9th of next month so I'll have a look then and ask about delivery. I'd also like to be able to get books sent up to me in the north east without spending a fortune

In the mean time, can anyone recommend a good big book store. If found many nigh book shops last time I was in HK but not the super sized book stores I see on the mainland. Where are the best/biggest book shops in HK or Macau.

[gato]

The biggest bookstore in HK for Chinese-language books, I think, is the Commercial Press Bookstore near the ferry building in Tsim Tsa Tsui, Kowloon, and for English-language book, it's probably the Page One bookstore in Times Square, Causeway Bay.

The Commercial Press Bookstore is about the size of a small-to-medium size Border's. The Page One is about half the size of the Commerical Press Bookstore but has a decent selection, depending on what you are looking.

See this thread and the list below:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/4054-bookshops-in-hk

Bookshops in HK

http://www.realityfilm.com.hk/dvd/book_stores.htm

商務印書館星光圖書中心 尖沙咀梳士巴利道3號星光行3樓

The Commercial Press (Hong Kong) LTD. Star House Book Centre 3/F., Star House, 3 Salisbury Rd., TST, Kln.

葉壹堂 銅鑼灣勿地臣街1號時代廣場地庫第一層

Page One Twins. B1 Time square, 1 Matheson Road.

葉壹堂 尖沙咀海港城商場3樓3002號舖

Page One Habour City Unit 3002, 3rd Floor, Habour City, TST

[skylee]

The commercial press at the star house in Tsim Sha Tsui has been closed. It´s moved to the Miramar shopping centre also in Tsim Sha Tsui as far as I can recall. I´ve written about it here but it has occurred to me that people seldom pay attention to what I said.

And the page one at Times Square has also moved for a long time. It is now on the 9th floor of the same shopping centre as far as I can recall.

[volga_volga]

2 djwebb2004

how about ordering books from Amazon to an address in the US/UK where you'd have a friend/family who would receive them and re-send them to China with a chinese-language address label that you'd mail them in advance?

shipping may also be cheaper this way, there are always promotions on amazon for domestic deliveries (free if you order over $X etc)