Archive for Press Clips
Bound featured in SME Insight mag
Thanks to SME Insight magazine for featuring Bound Bookshop in its September 2007 issue. In his four-page story, Timothy Tuason writes about the genesis of the bookstore and what lessons in entrepreneurship its owners impart. Tuason concludes: “So if you happen to find yourself in Quezon City one day with time to kill, you might [...]
Reusable bags make a comeback
By TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines — If you haven’t noticed it yet, reusable bags are slowly making a big comeback not only in supermarkets, but also in bookstores and small shops, and soon, in restaurants.
Bound Bookshop, put up by journalists on Scout Castor Street near the busy Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon City, has [...]
A passion for books and press freedom
By Wilson Lee Flores
BULL MARKET, BULL SHEET
The Philippine STAR 04/18/2005
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
– Dutch humanist and writer Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Is the pen really mightier than the sword… what about against shotguns? Can promoting book reading and untrammeled press freedom help [...]
Five journalists plunge into the book business
ON A WING and a prayer. That was the spirit that bound five journalists when they plunged into the business of selling new and read books, says Inday Espina Varona, editor of the Philippine Graphic.
“We’ve been talking about it. Usapang panaginip lang (dream talk),” she says of the bookshop they call “Bound” that opened March [...]