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The e-commerce giant is walking a fine line between appeasing customers and actually making money.

Dobby in Harry Potter. Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. Heck, even Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web. These were some of the characters we loved and eventually mourned, as they perished tragically within the pages of our beloved books. On April 5, 2023, book lovers all over the island were grieving a different kind of book death, but one just as...

Jassy described 2022 as ‘one of the harder macroeconomic years in recent memory’ and detailed the steps Amazon had taken to trim costs

On Thursday’s backchat we’re looking at the evolution of the book industry First, e-books and online retailers hit traditional brick-and-mortar retailers… driving out big players such as Page One and Dymocks from Hong Kong years ago. But now, are even online retailers in trouble? The UK-based online store, Book Depository, is set to close down after being in business for almost two decades. This comes after its parent company Amazon announced plans to cut thousands of jobs as it shakes up its businesses globally. So what’s changed? How will it impact our reading cultu...

Book Depository fan Adrian Choo was sad to hear that the online store will shut down on Apr 26, but he wasn’t entirely surprised. Here’s why.