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How Hong Kong independent bookstores are in flux amid closures – but it’s not all doom and gloom

Hillway Culture in Mong Kok, before it closed. Photo: Instagram / @hillway.culture In July 2021, Hillway Press received complaints from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council that some of the …

E-readers were supposed to kill printed books. Instead, they’re booming

by Anas Siddiqui

Cost of Living8:55The return of the bookstore When e-readers like the Amazon Kindle burst onto the scene, showing up next to menorahs and under Christmas trees in the early 2000s, …

Booksellers, authors demand FTC monopoly probe of Amazon

by Edgar Davis

US booksellers and authors urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s alleged monopolistic grip over the industry on Wednesday — even as the e-commerce giant already faces a looming …