Shen, a library studies graduate of the World College of Journalism and Communications had run a typesetting company, and been given a pile of books in place of payment due to him by a bookshop operator forced to wind up his business because of flagging sales. For four years at a stretch, Shen operated a roadside bookstall at the Shihlin Night Market, and subsequently set up the Tien Long and Feng Yun bookshops.
世新圖資科畢業的沈榮裕，開打字行時被出版社倒債，拿到一堆倒帳書，他在士林夜市擺過書攤四年多，爾後開設天龍與風雲書局。