Hong Kong’s Paddyfield.com and libraries

Lee Hadden writes: \”The Wall Street Journal has an article today (January 30, 2002), on
page B5D by Bruce Knecht, \”Hong Kong Bookseller Paddyfield.com Breaks Even
by Cutting Costs, Reaching Out.\”

\”In the US, library supply companies provide schools with information
about the best new titles, but schools in Hong Kong generally have had to
rely on long-distance relationships with individual publishers. Filling the
void, Mrs. Leung, a 40 year old mother of two young children, meets with
librarians as well as teachers and other parents to tell them about the
latest books.\”

The on-line bookstore competitor to Amazon.com now has over 700,000
titles available for their customers, and has been profitable for some
time.
See: paddyfield.com.\”

January 31, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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