After days of downpours brought on by typhoon Doksuri from late July to early August, BooksChina.com (Books China), one of the country’s first domestic online book sales platforms, suffered a devastating loss. Over 4 million books were soaked and damaged to varying degrees in its storage center located in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, one of the most severely affected regions during the disaster.
Books China said as a small company that has meager profits, it hasn’t recovered from the difficulties. It managed to get through the three-year-long pandemic and then encountered this disaster. “We will strive to save ourselves and survive,” a post on its official account on
