"It's midnight in the capital of Taiwan. While some people are slowly walking home through the neon-lit streets, or getting ready to hit the club scene, others are on their way to a more unusual nocturnal hangout--a bookstore." Although this sounds like the first lines of a mystery novel, it was actually the opening to a CNN report headlined "Nightclubs for literature? Why book selling is booming in Taiwan."
CNN visited Eslite's 24-hour bookstore in central Taipei, where "the mix of literature and design has made the store a hangout for hipsters as well as bookworms, allowing the company to shrug off the challenges of the digital age." Customer Huang Yu Han described the bookstore as "a cool place, a bit like Soho in New York. Many cool people hang out here. Some come here to read, others just to kill time and meet friends. It's like a place for modern culture and it's close to some of the best nightclubs and bars."
