BooksActually bids farewell to Tiong Bahru and transforms into online store

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BooksActually bids farewell to Tiong Bahru and transforms into online store

COVID-19 has taken its cost on one of Singapore's most-loved bookstores – only it will continue to exist online.

Beloved local bookstore BooksActually has announced that it is shutting its brick-and-mortar shop and will "transform fully" into an online shop.

The 15-year-quondam business organization, whose Tiong Bahru shop has been shut since the "excursion breaker", broke the news to fans and followers on its website and social media pages at midnight on Sep 13.

"As the world changes around us, the bookstore has to movement in tandem likewise," wrote owner and co-founder Kenny Leck.

Kenny Leck co-founded BooksActually in 2005. (Photo: Facebook / BooksActually)

However, he also reassured literature lovers that physical events will proceed whenever and wherever the state of affairs allows.

"When Singapore somewhen turns the corner, and goes into Phase 3, we will bring back our weekly literary events," he wrote. "I mean, what is BooksActually without its annual #BuySingLit street political party, and the truly maddening merely iconic 24 60 minutes Bookstore and The Earth's Loneliest Bookstore?"

He added, "Regardless of the uncertainties or vulnerabilities this year of change has imposed on all of us, one thing we know for sure is that the bookstore will exist here for a very long time. Or at to the lowest degree where I am concerned, I am very certain that she, BooksActually will continue to exist your 'neighbourhood' bookstore long later on I am gone."

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Instagram commenters left letters like "So devastated", "Feels like the end of an era" and "Thanks for the dandy memories."

Read the full announcement here.

BooksActually bids farewell to Tiong Bahru and transforms into online store

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