Taipei-based Dreamland Image Co. created Beyond Bookstores as a literary repository for the insights, anecdotes, and other interesting bits uncovered but not fully used by their team during research for their original dramatic TV series Lovestore at the Corner and series of short films Poetries from the Bookstore. This literary project came to fruition under the guidance of widely respected author Yang Zhao, with interviews and writing by freelance writer Kuo I-Ching and delicately executed illustrations of each bookshop hand-drawn by Miss Cyndi.