There are several Singapore bookstore chains where you can buy books in Singapore. Books in these major bookstores are frequently replenished, and booksellers enjoy a high amount of returning customers. Prices of fiction books in these retail bookstores tend to be similar, but for travel guides, there are significant price differences as you can see in the table below. Local bookstores also allow you to place special orders for books that are not in stock.
GuideGecko
GuideGecko is your online travel bookstore with the lowest prices. It has a wide range of travel guides from Lonely Planet, DK Eyewitness, Fodor’s, Frommer’s, Insight Guides, Rough Guides, Berlitz and more publishers.
Our guides cover a wide range of topics, such as backpacker travel, weekend getaways and city trips, and are offered at heavily discounted prices. We also offer downloadable ebook guides that you can print out or read on your PDA while on the go. Look no further for travel guides. Browse our guides today and enjoy free Singapore delivery and low shipping costs within Asia!
If you are looking for other genres of books, like fiction, non-fiction, business, academic titles and comics, check out these stores:
(1) Kinokuniya Singapore
With a wide range of books, Kinokuniya is a favourite among lovers of Asian comics and magazines, English fiction and poetry readers, and also carries non-fiction, scientific, self-help and academic titles. The stationery section includes Japanese stationery, and there is a bustling Coffee Express café in the store.
Main store: 391 Orchard Road #03-09/10/15 Takashimaya Shopping Centre Singapore 238872 Opening hours: Sun-Fri 10am-9.30pm, Sat 10am-10pm. (Smaller branches located at Liang Court and Bugis Junction.) Telephone no.: 67375021 (Takashimaya), 63371300 (Liang Court), 63391790 (Bugis Junction) Enquiry form: http://www.kinokuniya.com.sg/site/?m=100&f=302
(2) Borders (Singapore)
The only Singapore Borders branch is located in Wheelock Place, opposite Orchard MRT Station. This major bookstore in Singapore sells books, DVDs, a wide range of local and foreign magazines and newspapers and designer stationery and gift items. There’s a café next door.
Homegrown brand Times Bookstores has several branches islandwide and sells general fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. Free gift wrapping available and free home delivery with a minimum purchase of S$100 in one receipt.
Sample Prices Lonely Planet Australia: Not available in store DK Eyewitness India: Not available in store
PageOne’s Vivocity branch opened in 2006, and its artistic interior, resembling a boat rocking on the waves, carries lots of English and Chinese fiction and non-fiction books. Some of the books and DVDs on sale are hard to find locally. Sample Prices Lonely Planet Australia: S$54.57 DK Eyewitness India: S$53.38
Sells general fiction and non-fiction, though with a much smaller range compared to Kinokuniya and Borders. Many students have been to Popular to get their school textbooks, stationery, IT products and CDs. Its bookshops are located islandwide.
Sample Prices Lonely Planet Australia: Not available in store DK Eyewitness India: Not available in store
Bras Basah Branch: POP@Central Blk 231 Bain Street level 2 to 5 Bras Basah Complex S(180231) Opening hours: Mon-Thurs 10am-7pm, Fri-Sun (& PH) 10am-9pm Bookstore locations: at various malls and campus bookstore branches. Telephone no.: 6462 9555 (customer service) Email:feedback@popularworld.com
(6) MPH Bookstore (Singapore)
Established in 1815 in Malacca, MPH the book shop moved to Singapore in 1890 and is a well-established chain here, selling books, magazines, stationery, gifts and greeting cards.
Sample Prices Lonely Planet Australia: S$54.57 DK Eyewitness India: Not available in store
Raffles City Branch: 252 North Bridge Road #B1-24/25/26 Raffles City Shopping Centre Singapore 179103 Opening hours: 10am-10pm daily Branches: at CityLink Mall, 63 Robinson Road (Afro Asia Building) and Novena Square Telephone no.: 6336 4232 (Raffles City), 6835 7637 (CityLink), 6222 6423 (Robinson Road) and 6353 7133 (Novena Square) Email:sales@mph.com.sg
(7) Harris
From its first outlet in Great World City, Harris has expanded to six outlets in just three years, selling an impressive variety of books for its age. The classic attracts the office crowd and students looking for novels, magazines, reference titles and children’s books.
Suntec City Branch: 3 Temasek Boulevard #02-069/71 Suntec City Mall Tower 2 Singapore 038983 Great World City Branch: 1 Kim Seng Promenade #02-22/24 Great World City Jurong Point Branch: 63 Jurong West Central 3 #B1-92/93 Jurong Point Shopping Centre Opening hours: Mon-Thurs & Sun 10.30am-9.30pm, Fri & Sat 10.30am-10pm (Great World City and Suntec), 10am-10pm daily (Jurong Point) Telephone no.: 6732 3679 (Great World City), 6514 6398 (Jurong Point), 6514 6699 (Suntec) Email:gwccustsvs@harrisbook.com (Great World City)
(8) Select Books
Select Books is Singapore's best independent source of Southeast Asian books. Since 1976, this Singapore bookstore has been carrying a respectable collection of Asian books on Asian art, literature, cooking and food, travel and children's stories. Pick up books about Singapore and Southeast Asia that you may not be able to find elsewhere here; history and culture aficionados will enjoy the selection at this bookseller.
Sample Prices Lonely Planet Australia: Not available in store DK Eyewitness India: S$51.52
OpenTrolley is an online bookstore in Singapore with a wide range of books, cheaper than at any other brick-and-mortar book store. Online bookshop orders are shipped within 1-2 weeks and less popular books are shipped in 2-4 weeks. Singpost registered mail delivery is S$4.98/order, and self-collection at Toy Outpost at Plaza Singapura is S$2.80/order.
Sample Prices Lonely Planet Australia: S$42.73 DK Eyewitness India: Not available in store
Is it true that there are no delivery costs within Singapore, as quoted above? Because when, logged in and ready to pay there are quite some shipping costs...
There is free shipping to Singapore for the books that we ship from Singapore. We also ship from the US and UK (with free shipping to these countries), and you can select from where you would like to receive the books if they are available in different locations.
I assume that the book you have been looking at was currently not on stock in Singapore, and that's why it only showed you UK or US options.
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