Books shopping
One of the biggest book mall in Guangzhou. Multistory high with each level providing different categories of book range. The mall mainly sells chinese books but there two private bookstores that sells english books too. One of them, by the name "New Page" that has nice ambience, provides english background music and seats for your books browsing.
At the ground floor, there are also counters selling digital dictioneries, MP3s and MP4s. Beside the main entrance is the customer service counter, where you can give them the list of book names you want to find and they will search them for you from their database. They will then give you a slip of paper with the floor and book shelve reference no for you to find them. Vast variety of chinese books - Chinese history, literature, cookbooks, novels etc.
English books - Especially those english books printed in China, they may cost even cheaper than you buy them overseas.


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