Rent and raising costs are a perennial issue for bookstores who have to compete with e-books and online vendors. How will physical bookstores survive? What forms of technology and tricks of the trade can they turn to improve profits and for sustainability? And do we still need physical bookstores?   

Episode Guests:

• Ibrahim Tahir, Founder of Wardah Books  
• Alex Chua, co-founder of Book Bar 
• Sung Yuen Ling, Manager of Maha Yuyi  

Recommended Reads:

• The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
• “Book City” in Two Streets: The Chinese Bookstore Scene in Postwar Singapore
• Passage of Time: Singapore Bookstore Stories 1881-2016

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