In 2001, Wang and a friend opened the well-known simplified-Chinese specialty shop Askfor near the Taipower Building on Roosevelt Road. Two years later, he left Askfor to open Lines of Flight on his own.
高店租＝高人氣 2001 年，王永和朋友合資在羅斯福路台電大樓一帶開設知名的簡體書店問津堂，兩年後，王永從問津堂獨立出來，開設秋水堂。