Eslite has chosen its Xinyi district store in Taipei, Taiwan, to be the chain's bookstore that stays open 24 hours a day, CNA (via Focus Taiwan) reported. Eslite's Dunnan store, which has been open continuously since 1999, closes at the end of May, when its lease runs out.
The 24-hour bookstore will be on the third floor of the Xinyi location, which is larger than the Dunnan store. It will begin staying open around the clock on May 29. On the same day, a record store and supermarket, also on the third floor, will begin 24-hour operations, making it the only 24-hour record store in Taiwan.
Eslite held an online poll this month asking customers to vote for which of five Eslite stores they wanted to be the one staying open 24 hours a day. The Xinyi store won the poll, the company said.
At a press conference announcing the choice, Eslite chairman Mercy Wu said that as long as Eslite exists, there will be a 24-hour bookstore in Taiwan.
Eslite has 44 stores in Taiwan, three in Hong Kong, two in China and one in Japan, which it opened last September.