Comments on: Living in Sweden: English Bookstores

By: Anonymous Swede

Anonymous Swede — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:36:06 +0000

Akademibokhandeln on Mäster Samuelsgatan is the largest bookstore in Scandinavia, so they will hopefully have a larger selection of English books as well.

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:48:03 +0000

Arian! Don’t worry, stop by blog and read the folks on the blogroll, you will learn a lot and be fine.

Anonymous Swede – Thank you for that information! The smaller ones I visited, did not have such a great selection. There is one in Goteborg that did a 4 for 3 sales, maybe it is still going on.

By: Anonymous Swede

Anonymous Swede — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:44 +0000

You should give Akademibokhandeln a 2nd chance. The one at Mäster Samuelsgatan (in Stockholm city) got a large section of English softcover books in the section named Pocketavdelningen. Pocketavdelningen is like a separate store in connection to the larger store. An English softcover book cost about 100 kr, and you can get 4 for the price of 3.

By: ARIAN

ARIAN — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:08:55 +0000

HEY THERE!
I`m going to be in Sweden in almost a year! Tere are a lot of things I`d like to know about! I`m a little afraid!
I will be here often…

By: Jesica

Jesica — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:28 +0000

Well I was studying in Linköping for a while and the bookstore had good options not only in english, also french and spanish, they also used to sell second hand books by less than 100 kr

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:26:32 +0000

@Jesica – I’ve never heard of a cheap University bookstore. That sounds like an oxymoron.

By: Jesica

Jesica — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:22:15 +0000

You can also check in the University bookstore, you can find cheap books in english there.

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:12:34 +0000

Thanks Lukas, I haven’t tried them out yet.

Hardcover for 229:- isn’t so bad. It’s when softcover books hit past 300:- do i start getting annoyed, lol. Let us know if you find any others!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:43:28 +0000

Akademibokhandeln isn’t too bad. I bought the most recent Dan Brown novel (The Lost Secret) hardcover for 229:- ($35.37 CAD). At Chapters/Indigo back home, the book is listed at $36.95 (though its 45% off at Chapters right now :/) + taxes.

So it isn’t TOO bad, from what I’ve seen. But that was a huge novel, so it may be against the rule.

By: Lukáš Polá?ek

Lukáš Polá?ek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:24:41 +0000

A friend of mine recommended http://www.adlibris.com. Altough I haven’t used this shop yet, they seem to have a big catalogue. And the shipping should be free.