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" I just want to open a bookstore. " This is the dream of many intellectuals, and it is also an unbearable burden for many readers in this age of Internet. As a famous cultural city, there have been several decent independent bookstores in Ji'nan. But last year, after the closure of Zhiyuan bookstore and Sanlian bookstore, independent bookstores and the city seemed to go further and further away. Recently, however, another independent bookstore was quietly established in Ji'nan. The owner of this bookstore is Zhang Bei. She says people tell her to open a bookstore to lose money. "But there's always someone to do it."
opening a bookstore in this era requires a heroic
this independent bookstore called "bookstore like", located in the three corner of quanle square. Zhang Bei, the boss, said that this is the most suitable location for rent that she can afford. Bookstore only less than 20 square meters, the entrance to a bar, a few old tables and chairs, on both sides of the bookshelves arranged neat books, almost no duplicate, almost all of the famous humanities, comic books and picture books, including Taiwan original books. Zhang Bei said it was a place where independent bookstores were distinguished from other state-run bookstores or bookstores. "The books offered to the customers were selected and the bookstore itself had to be independent." There was a joke before
: if you want a friend to lose money, let him open a bookstore. More understanding, know that the behavior of Zhang Beikai bookstore in the case of independent bookstores shut down in succession, is some "find death", if the poetical point, also near a "chivalrous". "All the books I sell now are my own, and not even a publishing house has provided me with books."
this year, Zhang Bei, who is 30 years old, has lived abroad for more than ten years. He studied accounting. After a graduate student in Australia, she entered one of the four largest Australian banks, and Australia was "rich and free", but Zhang always felt a little less. So she ran to Taiwan and learned her favorite pet beauty. To ensure that they have a skill, since then, Zhang Pei decided to take all these years of savings to go home to open bookstores.
Zhang Bei said that he finally went home to open a bookstore to realize his dream. "I have consulted former acquaintances in bookstores before, and they all told me that they must die. But I think there is always a bookstore in a city. There is a small number of people who love reading, and there is still a group. I want to try it. If I fail, I will at least try it. "
winning the rent is a victory
Zhang Bei said that at the beginning, the location of "bookstore like" was not at quanle square, but on Furong street. "I think there are more people there. But later it was not very reliable because basically it was tourists who came in to fight soy sauce. Zhang Pei set his goal at first: winning the rent is victory. Her Bookstore stands upright between the rent and the soy sauce.
to be able to "win the rent", Zhang has taken some new attempts, which were not tried before by other bookstores, such as online activities, gathering people in a network community such as the bean and other literary and artistic youth, watching a movie in a bookstore or carrying out a book discussion. She transformed the bookstore close to the interior into a small area and placed the projector.
"the last time a reading meeting was held was to read Wang Xiaobao." Zhang Bei said. At that time, everyone sat around a desk, then found a Wang Xiaobao article, each reading a paragraph, like a religious ritual to calm down the mind, read deeply, "when you leave, people who come to participate in the activities feel very rewarding. The pace of life is so fast that you haven't read quality for a long time. That night Wang Xiaobao read late into the night, and Wang Xiaobao's readers were reluctant to leave. Zhang Bei believed that it was the sincere heart of the people in the culture, and was not completely annihilated in the noisy city.
reporter has learned that in some highly developed cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen, the form of "private reading", such as Zhang Bei, is becoming a trend. Bookstores are not only a market for book sellers, but also assume more functions of cultural establishments. Zhang Bei hopes that the function of social communication can improve the stickiness of bookstore customers. The heart can calm down. "
for readers and books encounter
readers also have expectations. Ding Yicheng, who often comes to "bookstore like", says that he has some expectations for independent bookstores, because he undertakes the encounter between people and books. "Although books on the Internet are fast and convenient, there is no way for readers to really touch a book or to choose books practically. On the Internet, buying books and watching news on the Internet are all in a whirlpool, coerced and eliminated personality. The biggest practical function of independent bookstores is to help readers choose books.
Ding Yicheng's expectation is what Zhang Pei wishes to achieve. She has many ideas in her mind, such as inviting famous writers to interact with bookstores.
business for a period of time, Zhang Bei also has his own feelings, although a bookstore can not make a lot of money, but it does not seem to be so difficult to imagine: "although it is not lively, but there are still people and leisure. Although the entry is not big, it can last for a while. " This is a little bit of Zhang Bei's time.
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the Nanjing pioneer bookstore is sealed by CNN as "China's most beautiful"
an independent bookstore will become a city landscape, in many beautiful cities, there is a bookstore as the business card of the city. Nanjing pioneer bookstore is undoubtedly a more successful one in China's independent bookstores. This month, the US CNN made a special report on Nanjing Xianfeng bookstore. The original title is: China 'smostbeautifulbookshopinacarpark - - China's most beautiful bookstore in the parking lot! The report is passed on micro-blog by netizens, quickly becoming micro-blog hot news, and the official micro-blog has forwarded it by Nanjing release. Netizens in Nanjing proudly say, "Wow, my big Nanjing bookstore is really high-end."
"there is no flamboyant chandelier, no flamboyant appearance, to find the most beautiful Chinese bookstore, travellers just go along the yellow line on the road to an underground parking lot." CNN's report begins with an introduction to an American audience of a thousand books stacked at the avantgarde bookstore, the history of the growth of the bookstore, the "second library" of Nanjing college students, and the bookstore Hall of the exchange and concert square. The report finally said: Pioneer bookstore in the eyes of the readers more to become a kind of kinship culture, a brand experience, a cultural symbol, is the tourist landmark of Nanjing.