An engrossed young reader at the Eslite Spectrum bookstore at Star House in Tsim Sha Tsui on October 2 last year. Visitors can also buy refreshments, jewellery, arts and crafts, handbags, skincare and organic products. Photo: Bruce Yan
An engrossed young reader at the Eslite Spectrum bookstore at Star House in Tsim Sha Tsui on October 2 last year. Visitors can also buy refreshments, jewellery, arts and crafts, handbags, skincare and organic products. Photo: Bruce Yan
Jason Y Ng
Opinion

Opinion

As I see it by Jason Y Ng

What’s killing Hong Kong bookstores?

Jason Ng discounts the usual suspects behind the closure of chains such as Page One and Dymocks, saying that faulty business sense, in the main, was their undoing

An engrossed young reader at the Eslite Spectrum bookstore at Star House in Tsim Sha Tsui on October 2 last year. Visitors can also buy refreshments, jewellery, arts and crafts, handbags, skincare and organic products. Photo: Bruce Yan
An engrossed young reader at the Eslite Spectrum bookstore at Star House in Tsim Sha Tsui on October 2 last year. Visitors can also buy refreshments, jewellery, arts and crafts, handbags, skincare and organic products. Photo: Bruce Yan
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