In mid-August last year, the 26-year-veteran Laureate Book Store, a specialist in books on philosophy and the humanities, succumbed after years of operating in the red, to the chagrin of readers. In July of this year, Artist Books quietly closed up its first-floor storefront near Wenchou Park.
去年 8 月中旬，經營 26 年、專攻社會哲學及人文研究領域的老字號「桂冠書店」，因不堪連年虧損，在眾多書迷的依依不捨中劃下句點；今年 7 月初，溫州公園附近、深耕藝術領域書籍的「藝術圖書公司」，也悄悄收起一樓門市，取而代之的，是強調新潮、時髦、現代化的美髮沙龍。