This article comes from the WeChat public account: do book (ID: zuoshu2013), OF: Chen Shih, head of FIG from: IC photo
I ca n’t remember how long ago I heard the news that “Eslite Dunnan Store is about to turn off the lights” There will be solidarity from people from all walks of life in Taiwan, and Eslite’s official response “will try to keep this lamp.”
Until November last year, that vague time suddenly became concrete on May 31, 2020. The new crown epidemic caused many corners of the world to press the pause button, but the countdown clock of the Eslite Dunnan store closed to this day as usual.
In the early morning of January 6, 2020, taken at the entrance of the first floor of Eslite Dunnan Store
Why do n’t we bother with Eslite Dunnan Store?
For me, Eslite Dunnan is the most important bookstore in Taiwan for nearly three years. In addition to participating in countless activities, he was once “contained” by it in the cold winter night; before graduating from Taiwan, he spent the whole night here seriously to see the Eslite Dunnan Store late at night What it looks like … On this day, it’s time to pay more attention to it, love it, or yearn for itIts people share some stories.
If you are not interested in these personal observations, and you still want to click into the title, you can think about it. Why the hell are we reluctant to Eslite Dunnan Store?
Recently, we have seen some marketing articles with topics such as “Sincere can’t hold it anymore”, “Bookstore industry is stuck in a retrograde period” and other topics with rhythm. But the main reason for the closure of Eslite Dunnan Store is very simple: the Dunnan Financial Building where the bookstore is located was sold to the new landlord, who had other plans to remodel the plan here, resulting in Eslite having to move out after the lease expires Here (Note: Only from the perspective of commercial benefits, a 30-year old 12-story old building is rebuilt in the East District of Taipei. Hard to understand) .
Actually, the Eslite Xinyi store as a “take over” has also been refitted and seamlessly connected with the Dunnan store to light up this 24-hour lamp.
Eslite Dunnan Store is located at -2F to 2F of Dunnan Financial Building
More worth remembering than “End” is the moment of “Start”.
Looking back at the history of Eslite Bookstore, this is not the first time Eslite Dunnan has closed its shop. As early as September 1995, the predecessor of Eslite Dunnan Store-Dunnan Circle Eslite had to say goodbye to the old site that had been in operation for 6 years because of the lease expiration, and moved to the next Dunnan Financial Building, which was later Eslite Dunnan Store.
Before moving, Eslite organized a series of “Xi Xin Lian Ji · Moving the House Do Not Love” event, the first attempt to open up to 18 hours of overnight business from the morning of September 23 to the morning of September 24. Thirty thousand people poured into the bookstore, and there was a long queue to enter the store at four in the morning.
When relocating, Eslite conducted a survey of “ideal bookstores in everyone ’s minds” to readers and published