India's top selling tech books

By Saheer Karimbayil   |   Friday, 03 October 2008, 00:16 IST
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Bangalore: As the book lovers are busy discussing about general best sellers like Amitav Gosh's latest 'Sea of Poppies' and Jeffrey Archer's thriller 'A Prisoner of Birth,' Siliconindia made an attempt to know the most selling technology related books in the IT capital of India, Bangalore. 'Object Oriented Programming with C++' by E Balaguruswamy and 'Let us C solutions' by Yashwant P Kanetkar were considered the most selling books in the last month. While the former is priced at Rs 250, the latter is available at Rs 225 "We sold around 50 copies of the each book last month," said Higginbotham staff N Nagraj. 'Let us C solutions' is a compilation of some problems in C programming language and its solution, while the other one deals with C++ language in a detailed way. 'PMP - Project Management Professional Study guide' by- Josheph Phillips is considered the second most selling book, which is priced at 595. ALE, EDT and I DOC Technologies for SAP, which was co-authored by Arvind Nagpal and John Pitlak made it to the third place. The book dwells upon the basics and delves deep into details of the core topic. The fourth best seller is Oracle OCA Oracle9i Associate DBA Certification exam guide by Jason Couchman. Priced at Rs 625, the book is mostly preferred by professionals for the certified exams. In the fifth place is CCIE, which covers the papers of CISCO exams including BSCI, BCMSN, ONT and ISCW. Written by Yusuf Bhaiji, the book is priced at 2300. While 'A+ Certification Training Kit', 3rd edition, brought out by Microsoft and priced at Rs 695, stood at the sixth position, 'SAP R/3 Certification Exam Guide,' which covers FI, CO, MM, PP and SD modules plus ABAP/4 Development Work Bench is at the seventh slot. Written by Stewart S. Miller, the book is priced at 575. 'Computer and Financial Accounting with Tally 9.0' by Vikas Gupta is in the eighth place. Priced at 249 this is a course related book, mostly preferred by institutes and students. e-Governance by Ashok Agarwal, priced at 495 and Management Information System by James Obrien , priced 399 are occupying the ninth and 10th slots respectively.