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On July 24, Honesty Bookshop, a "bookstore with no cashier desk and no working staff was opened to the public in a busy city square in Nanjing," Shanghaiist reported, adding that the shop "actually managed to cover costs with its 'pay what you will' policy."
Although the location "is relatively small and consists of four bookshelves holding around 1,500 titles," one of the organizers of the experiment said "they sold over 300 books on the store's opening day and the money put into the box was 'basically' the right amount," Shanghaiist wrote.