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Down by Popular Demand?

Posted in Daily Observations, Technology |

Being one of the nation’s biggest bookstore, I hadn’t expect this to come from their IT department…


Popular Bookstore\'s website

What’s the message here?

From now till November 2008, Popular Book Co. (M) Sdn Bhd will not have any resources to run their website?

Or Popular Book Co. (M) Sdn Bhd decided that customers who goes online don’t generate much profit, hence they’ve decided to ignore the netizens for this whole period?

In the age where the online medium has become one of the most, if not the most important communication channel between a corporation and their customers, you don’t really see this type of brick-and-mortar-style “close down for renovation until further notice” sign.

I just don’t get it.





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  • http://www.lefiores.com Ammie

    Not so “popular” after all. Their recent book fair was disappointing. They had very little selection of English books.

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    Yup, it’s like only 5% of the entire book fair. They should have mentioned it literally- “Chinese Books Fair” so that bananas like me won’t need to bother to join in the fray.

    But then again, I don’t think that’s a good thing to do after what Ahmad Ismail said. Malaysians are a sentimental lot.

  • http://infoarchie.wordpress.com Suffian

    I’ve never been to Popular’s website, but I reckon I’ll check it out after the redesign. And yes, they probably don’t give a crap about teh interwebs, anyway.

  • http://www.meshio.com yowchuan

    Yeah, even Popular Bookstore has got their own “REFORMASI” agenda coming November 2008.