Are Books Still A Lucrative Business

Andrew Yap, Co-Founder & Managing Director, BookXcess

18-Aug-22 08:00

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More people turned to books during the pandemic but was this reflected in revenues. Not likely if operations was just focused on fairs and bookshops. So we speak to Andrew Yap, Co-Founder & Managing Director of BookXcess as to how they made the switch to online sales and are they back in the black with all 19 stores opened.

Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning

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Categories: managing, Corporates, markets

Tags: bookxcess, big bad wolf, book culture,

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