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Sad to see bookshops close. But let’s face it, book culture has changed
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Bookstore chain Times has closed its Plaza Singapura and Waterway Point branches.
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Deborah Giam
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For many book lovers, it read as a new blow: The news that bookshop chain Times has closed its Plaza Singapura and Waterway Point branches.
After the loss of Borders, Harris, Page One and MPH, one would imagine that the community would be inured to these closures by now. But once again, the shutter triggered a social media outcry.
