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- https://news.readmoo.com/2016/01/06/160106-independent-bookstore-03/
- “At first, I thought about opening a second hand bookstore because of the high profit.” However, I lacked the knowledge about the book of economy and discovered that collecting the books are not as easy as she thought. Yong Le Zho accepts consignment and new book since it was open. In addition, it also has some activities. These points make the differences with other second-hand bookstores. Although Yong-Le-Zho sell many other things else than books, books make the most money from all of the things. Because 90% of the income came from the books, it became the characteristic of Yong-Le-Zho.
Alternative Bookstores
- The Regent Store
- The Regent Store is the oldest bookstore in Taiwan, which is located in Taichung. This bookstore established about a hundred years, and used “deligence, thrift, honesty, trust, and mercy” as a management aims. And specialized in "spiritual, religious, Wushu, and humanities." The establisher of Regent Store was Hsu Ke Sui. Mr. Hsu founded this bookstore in 1912 when Japan ruled Taiwan; Mr. Hsu saw that Japanese books were prevalent in the market, so he decided to do the continuation of Taiwan's traditional culture and set up a area that specialized in selling Chinese books. Though Japanese searched and reserved him for many times, he didn’t change his idea. Mr. Hsu participated in charity. After the war, he followed Mr. Lee to practice dharma, helped create old time society, libraries, preschools, etc.. He devoted all of him to help other people.
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epochtimes.com
- Taiwan Local Cultural Bookshop
- Taiwan Local Cultural Bookshop located at Taichung City. It contains lots of books about Taiwan. Also, these books are very wide. For example, folk crafts, cultural traits, religious festivals, temple decorations, etc.. Due to the reason that the bookstore is determined to sell books about Taiwan only, they have to use eager and the central idea to earn back their losses. Dr. Ji is the person who activates Taiwan Local Cultural Bookshop, the independent bookstore that was created by the Taiwan Local Cultural Bookshop. In 1993, Dr.Ji, who was 53 years old, gave up the jobs and decided to move back from United States to Taiwan. At autumn, he started Taiwan Local Cultural Bookshop at Sanmin road, Tainan. He said that advocacing customers to buy and read books is the most solid way to promote Taiwan’s culture. In 1999, Dr. Ji died because of sickness. He completed his wish, and his family continued the bookstore.
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roodo.com
- Fembooks
- Fembooks is located at Xinsheng South Road, Taipei. It is the first bookstore that uses woman as the theme. Compare to other independent bookstore, fembooks can be founded easier. The books at fembooks contained the the books of female author, books for female, books about female, and books about gender. Many people thought that feminism is a serious topic. On the contrary, fembooks uses most close way and without pressure to let more people know about all genders are equal.
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Top 10 Independent Bookshops of Taiwan
- NO.10 Detective Bookstore
- Detective bookstore is the first independent store that uses detectives as the topic. It located in the alley at Taipei City’s Yuan-Huan. There are many items that came from detective fiction, such as formosa’s pipe and magnifier. The bookstore will create some activities for the customers.
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buzzorange.com - NO.9 Yong-Le-Zho
- This is a second-hand bookstore that located at Taipei City. Its name came from Dadaocheng’s theater. It sells second-hand books, spititual musics, and cultural and creative products. In addition, the store also provided sofa to let the customers order some coffee to sit down and read books.
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roodo blog - NO.8 Hong-Ya Bookstore
- Located at Chiayi City, it also has the title of “the most active bookstore at the south of choshui river.” Hong-Ya bookstore uses natural ecosystems, social movement, and native Taiwanese as topic for selling. The music in the store is not all modern music. There will be other kinds of music in the bookstore. Hong-Ya bookstore sells every kinds of book, except for popular books and textbooks. The bookstore survived 10 years based on Chiayi’s local culture and never giving up.
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Ettoday News - NO.7 Lifestyle Bookstore
- Lifestyle Bookstore is located in Taoyuan County. It is a quiet elegant bookstore that mainly based on second hand books and some new books. This bookstore is a indie bookshop that combines with snacks and coffee, giving people a warm feeling at this bookstore. However, Lifestyle Bookstore also provide a temporary place for people to rest. There are a book on each of the desk that serve a purpose for the costumers to write some feedbacks. Jing-Gen bookstore is a bookstore that have styles of grassland and sunshine. It is called “the most beautiful bookstore in Northern Taiwan.”
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pixnet.net - NO.6 Smallidea bookstore
- This one is a smaller bookshop located near the DingXi MRT station, and it is tucked into the small space of a traditional market. Theres is a relaxing sensation in the air, with a cat striding to and fro within the bookstore, and the owner is known as “Shamao,” which refers to the cat. The shop not only sells books, but actually utilizes half of its space as a cozy coffee shop. Although the bookstore isn’t big, but it has an abundance of varying book collections.
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pixnet.net - NO.5 Huang-Huang Second-hand Bookstore
- This bookstore is located in Taidong city. It not only provides costumers to exchange second-hand books and CDs, but also holds some classes, lectures, and new book performance. This bookstore is also kind to animals. It will use ten-percent of their income to help the cats in their community.
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iLikeEdit - NO.4 Brilliant Time Bookstore
- Brilliant Time is located in Zhong-He., New Taipei City. It is a bookstore that has a theme of Southeast Asia, most of books are about their culture. This bookstore is a member of Southeast Asia Reading League, which is a organization that sell books about Southeast Asia. Brilliant Time gathers and borrow Southeast Asia as the theme and provides some activities and learning materials and places. Brilliant Time is determined to borrow their books and not saling them. They provided unlimited period for borrowing the books and also the deposits for the books. By doing these, the bookstore wanted the customers to communicate with books so that they can mark on the book and also write some feedback.
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newsweek.shu.edu.tw - NO.3 Mollie Second-hand Bookstore
- This bookstore is located in the basement of Guanghua Market, which in Taipei. This book store's interior is bright and neat, and has it’s own speciality. Mollie Used Books is a second hand bookstore and the books' quality are high and new; moreover, it also provides good service for all customs who come and enjoy this bookstore.
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pixnet.net - NO.2 TaKao Books
- TaKao Books is a indie bookshop that located in Xinxing Distinct., Kaosiung City. This store combines coffee store and books together, which is their spcialty. This extraordinary characteristic let people who come to here immerse the delicious meal while reading. TaKao Books have reading, creative life, and sometimes there will have performer performing arts. The first of indie booksop in Kaoshiung is Takao Books, and their various details of the building and the interior of decoration promote the local culture of Kaosiung; thus, became a place where people's exchange of culture.
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www.vita.tw - NO.1 Huwei Salon
- This bookstore in first place is an independent bookshop located at HuWei Township, Yunlin county. It built in 1940s, and this building is a fushion of Japanese colonial era building style mixed with Western style. Although the Huwei Salon had Japanese appearance, but it wardly they are filled with European style. Huwei Salon's establish purpose was "to keep the occasion of now on for the future, and open the door that talk to world in order to create the future for now."
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Xuite.net
The information above is from：http://dailyview.tw/Daily/2015/08/23
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