8 Singapore indie bookstores join forces to launch Bookshop.sg, a one-stop site for book lovers

8 Singapore indie bookstores join forces to launch Bookshop.sg, a one-stop site for book lovers

Eddie Lim, Thryft’s co-founder and CEO, commented,” This partnership highlights the many creative approaches bookstores these are bringing great books to the people.”

Ho TingXuan, Thryft’s financial manager and Bookshop task manager, is Sg continued,” With this program, we hope to highlight and develop Singapore’s reading lifestyle.”

The Singaporean independent bookshops, in this together, is the platform’s phrase, which also aims to encourage further collaboration between participating bookstores.

With this first cooperation, all producers, booksellers, readers, and writers can quickly come together to discuss, explore, share our problems, and come up with solutions, according to Tan Waln Ching, chairman of City Book Room, a store and publisher with a focus on Chinese books.

The mood was shared by Ibrahim Tahir, the director of Wardah Books, an Islamist shop in Kampong Glam.

He claimed that” the platform is secondary.” The platform’s ability to co-operate with book sellers is its main goal. We are swayed from capitalism’s brutal economical design.

When we understand that we can have a unity of purpose, we can accomplish many different goals for the browsing field in this case.

Bookshop. Sg has eight locations now, but the company plans to soon allowed more independent booksellers and publishers from Singapore.

The team will also be hosting a physical exhibition of curated booksellers ‘ books, along with a booksellers ‘ panel at Thryft Hub at 120 Lower Delta Road on May 31 to celebrate the launch. Registering for the occasion through Bookshop is open to all interested parties. Instagram of Sg &nbsp,