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

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?  &nbsp;
Episode Guests:
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</ul>
Recommended Reads:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201751300-the-bookshop">The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore</a></li>
<li><a href="https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-18/issue-4/jan-mar-2023/postwar-chinese-bookstores/">&ldquo;Book City&rdquo; in Two Streets: The Chinese Bookstore Scene in Postwar Singapore</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/about/Passage_of_Time.html?id=_4yDnQAACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y">Passage of Time: Singapore Bookstore Stories 1881-2016</a></li>
</ul>

In this educational podcast series, Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee from the National Institute of Education (NIE) discusses all things related to reading. Series 1, supported by the NIE Incentivising ICT-Use Innovations Grant (I3G), explores the complex issue of learning to read across life stages, from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. Series 2, supported by the Singapore Book Council, focuses on the technologies and cultures of reading, asking why and how reading and infrastructures for reading matter in this age of Generative Artificial Intelligence.

For show transcripts, please visit https://www.lohchinee.com/hwr-s2.

In this educational podcast series, Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee from the National Institute of Education (NIE)&nbsp;discusses&nbsp;all things related to reading. Series 1, supported by the NIE&nbsp;Incentivising&nbsp;ICT-Use Innovations Grant (I3G),&nbsp;explores the complex issue of learning to read across life stages, from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. Series 2, supported by the Singapore Book Council, focuses on the technologies and cultures of reading, asking why and how reading and infrastructures for reading matter in this age of Generative Artificial Intelligence.
For show transcripts, please visit https://www.lohchinee.com/hwr-s2.

How We Read Podcast

In this educational podcast series, Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee from the National Institute of Education discusses all things reading. Series 1 explores the complex issue of learning to read across life stages, from children to adolescence and adults Series 2, supported by the Singapore Book Council, focuses on the technologies and cultures of reading, asking why it matters and how it matters. 

For show transcripts, please visit https://www.lohchinee.com/hwr-s2 

In this educational podcast series, Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee from the National Institute of Education discusses all things reading. Series 1 explores the complex issue of learning to read across life stages, from children to adolescence and adults Series 2, supported by the Singapore Book Council, focuses on the technologies and cultures of reading, asking why it matters and how it matters.&nbsp;
For show transcripts, please visit <a href="https://www.lohchinee.com/hwr-s2">https://www.lohchinee.com/hwr-s2</a>&nbsp;

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