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https://www.esquiremag.ph/money/industry/national-book-store-updates-2023-a00289-20230810-lfrm?

The company has gone through multiple upheavals—wars, revolutions, natural disasters, and changes in customer behaviors, among many other challenges—but perhaps none tested the mettle of the 80-plus-year-old company more than the pandemic. “It was devastating,” Adrian Ramos, current president of National Book Store tells Esquire Philippines during that period. “We were hit on multiple fronts.”

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[-] k5nn@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Part of me says that they should make the jump to E-Books and Audiobooks

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