Near the landmark of Taipei 101 Building, known as the world's largest traditional Chinese bookstore, it is also the only 24 -hour bookstore and Eslite Shop in Taiwan.

Fortunately, this story that has persisted for 24 years has not yet ended, and there are also the urban legends from pick -up stores and substitute shops, so that anyone can read free of charge at any time, and do not snooze for 24 hours.

The pick -up store is an Eslite Songyan shop located in the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. The environment is quiet and known as "seeing the sky in the sky in the sky".There are also "EXPO" cultural and creative platforms of Eslite's own cinema and performance halls, and cultivating literary entrepreneurs, and continue to practice the core concept of "improving the humanistic temperament" of Mr. Wu Qingyou, who died in 2017.

The transfer period takes four weeks. It is mainly to carry a large number of books. After receiving the pine smoke shop on January 20, the volume of the book has increased by three times to 100,000.Therefore, from Ping An Night to the pick -up period, Eslite South West Store, located on Nanjing West Road for 28 days, and prepared for the six -hour movie marathon in the middle of the night.

Established in Taiwan ’s local bookstores at that time, in 1999, at Eslite Dunnan Store on Dunhua South Road in 1999, began the world’ s first 24 -hour business bookstore tradition. It also received free books on lovers day and night, which also attracted people.The store enjoys food, buying a living department store, and establishing a unique operating model of "Welcome to free booking, by the way for consumption meals".

On June 1, 2020, Eslite Shopping Store took over Eslite Dunnan Store, which extinguished the lamp due to lease expiration, and allowed bookstores on the third floor to operate 24 hours a day.Until this year's safety night turning off the lights, the Xinyi store that has been operating for 18 years in the original site, it is said that it has attracted 200 million people to visit.Readers say goodbye.

Through Dunnan, and then to Xinyi and Songshan, it has been three years of losses during the epidemic. Wu Yanjie (the daughter of the founder), the 45 -year -old chairman of Eslite, said that Taiwan has the highest density supermarket in the world.(That is convenience store), if supermarkets can be opened for 24 hours, of course, there should be a 24 -hour bookstore in Taiwan.This is a symbolic significance. "The 24 -hour lamp of a bookstore is always on, which represents the insistence of the bookstore on behalf of Eslite."

The book lovers can't help worrying. How long can Eslite stand for such losses?Fortunately, Wu Yanjie said at the opening of Yulong City, the largest in Yulong City, New Taipei City at the end of September that next year, there is hope for a profit to make a profit, "the operation has seen the sun."

Wu Yanjie has a good relationship with Wu Qingyou, who founded Eslite. She said that her father was Mr. Wu or the boss, but every time she interviewed, she revealed the tenacity and emotion of inheritance of her father.

When she was interviewed last year, she revealed for the first time that when her father was alive, because of the issue of renewal of the contract of the Eslite Shopping Store, she wanted to bring her to the owner and the director of the unified group, but did not enter the door."At that time, the boss (Wu Qingyou) was sitting in the car and thought to me a bit,‘ Mercy (Wu Yijie), (want to renew the contract) looks not very optimistic! ’"

After her father died, she repeatedly made an appointment with Luo Zhi, the head of the unified group, but still couldn't see the previous side.Now that the owner is based on business considerations, the lease will no longer renew the contract, and she is also mentally prepared.

After all, opening a bookstore in Taipei's essence business district, Eslite's revenue is far lower than department stores. Owners cannot withdraw higher rents to make it. It is not easy to stick to it for 18 years.

Interestingly, after Wu Yijie could not renew the appointment in Xinyi store, he summarized with 18 words full of Zen: "It is gratifying, but there are many worries, but it is unfortunate, but hope is endless."In the next ten years, Eslite will move towards the integration of false and reality, and is committed to creating a series (combined with the mobile phone application of members and e -commerce) and the full -channel service of physical stores. It plans to open more community stores and go deep into the villagers to serve readers.

Eslite has been adhered to for 24 years and a 24 -hour bookstore, which has been read for free, has become the cultural landmark of Taipei, and it is rare for a group of people to persist.

In the era of paper media micro -screen and social media, many people have no patient reading more than 100 words.Therefore, every time I arrived at Eslite, I was always reluctant to see the quiet reading of men, women, and children, and immersed in the joy of writing.

Everyone who loves reading can find unforgettable memories in Eslite.My memories, in addition to reading a variety of interesting books, also include several weekends to Eslite Cinema, "Reading" interesting movies, and even when the director finally met the director with the movie protagonist, and he appeared with the movie protagonist.The audience talked to.

May the bookstore's lighting of the bookstore will not go out, remind everyone to read the beauty.