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There seems to be less dive books and magazines on the bookshelves these days? I can only speak for my observations but when you go into a chain bookstore like Chapters you will find more books and magazines on surfing than you can on diving. Rather interesting as living in Southwestern Ontario I don't see a large amount of people surfing when I go to the beach.
Now, I am not knocking surfing at all as I might try windsurfing one of these days myself. Surfing is definitely very cool and many divers are also into surfing and other watersports. I am just perplexed as to why this is inventory trend is occuring, especially when diving is far more accessible in this area.
Discounting the fact that chain stores carry a consistent product offering in all of their stores in a wide geographic area I wonder if we are not seeing actual confirmation that scuba diving has lost the general public interest over the last few years? After all, retailers carry what people seem to wish to purchase. Or is this a trend that is due to more internet use and less general reading?
In the end, diving is more of a "do" activity than a "read" activity but I wonder where the future divers will come from without books and magazines on the subject to to get them interested in the first place. What are your thoughts?
Yeah! That bugs me! And kindle really doesn't help much as I have only been able to find one of the many books I've been interested in on kindle... I know here are a lot of divers out there, why no media?
Its and industry shift two ways- more on line purchases, hence going to barnes and noble.com or amazon.com, AND more e-books being sold. If you go to either to these two sites, you will find that AMazon carries over 1800 "scuba books" in either print or ebook form, and barnes and noble lists over 600 in print or nook availablity. Browse there for idea. If you local book store doesn't carry what you want they will certainly order it for you.
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