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 want to head over to Bound Bookshop on Scout Castor. It’s a small, cozy nook that may seem out of place amidst the busy restaurants that dot Tomas Morato, but you just might find yourself being thankful that it’s there, simply because it serves as an oasis for the book-lover in you.”

(Sorry, folks, but the story is not available online. You’ll just have to buy a copy of SME Insight, which is available, of course, at Bound.)

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 been offering cloth bags at P125 apiece to customers who refuse plastic bags.
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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 in the quest to liberate the Philippines from the age-old semi-feudal warlord politics dominating many rural provinces and which has caused so many unsolved murders of journalists in recent years?

A group of five journalists crusading to defend beleaguered or slain rural journalists and who love books recently banded together to open a nice little bookshop called Bound at 105 Scout Castor Street (just a few blocks off Tomas Morato Avenue behind Grappa’s Restaurant), Quezon City.

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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 8 at 105-A Scout Castor St., in Quezon City.
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