forget the brick and mortar stores for anything other than adobe - Max - Maya,
you may luck out now and again and find an old bryce book thats not been sent back. occasionally youll find the latest say poser book... but that only lasts a week or two before headoffice decide it`s not selling, pull it from the shelves and put the latest photoshop CS4 book next to the 5 copies of photoshop 5 for dummies. (work out the logic there right?)

for some reason the ordering ppl think all that we want is adobe-max-maya. but since thats all they stock, thats all that sells, so then thats all that they order since thats all they see selling.

those that do want the books in turn goto to amazon or specialist bookstores, like on a uni campus, to get the books instead of ordering them at chapters and the like...