Bookstores naturally have different scenery, but it is undeniable that physical bookstores are currently facing certain survival difficulties. Many bookstores are trying to take a road of transformation by making creative products, creating a bookstore complex space and opening theme bookstores. I sincerely hope that physical bookstores can achieve better development through various differentiation strategies. Left-handed culture and right-handed business may be a good state, just like Eslite bookstore owner mentioned creating readers and creating value. Profit is the biggest motivation for the bookstore to continue. No matter how lofty the feelings are, they will be vulnerable in the face of loss. Finally, they had to close the bookstore. Only by making bookstores survive better can we preserve the world where people and books meet.
Seeing Douban's comments on bibliophiles and booksellers, I feel full of copper smell and don't really love books. When I saw this sand sculpture speech, I really didn't spit. No matter whether the original intention of the practitioners in the industries around these books is for money or love, it is undeniable that their existence has made many book lovers have a better experience. With profits, they will want to help those book collectors get their favorite old books, just like the gossip who is not very literate in the movie gradually has a decent life in his shop by selling second-hand books. However, he also allows local book collectors to enjoy more convenient and better service, and local book collectors are willing to give him a corresponding return. Isn't this a better allocation of resources through the power of marketization? Power generation with love is always a small amount of electricity, and power generation with market-oriented income may last longer. Moreover, the professional division of labor brought about by marketization will be more efficient than individual finding books by mistake. Even if someone enters this industry just because of money, it is not a bad thing for book fans. Of course, we should also be alert to the tendency of excessive commercialization and speculation.
People who love books love books because books are the carrier of inheriting culture, and some book practitioners love books because books are the rice bowl of the whole family. Who is deeper and nobler than these two kinds of love? Books are loved, treated well and circulated. Why worry about all this? The literary tone of some petty bourgeoisie on Douban is really disgusting. Reading should let us know more about the world, instead of separating ourselves from the working people and putting ourselves in a higher position. Reading as a hobby is actually a way to kill time. You can say that reading is cheaper than eating meat and drinking, or that reading is healthier than dancing all night, but can you say that reading is more noble than other ways to kill time?
Although I like books very much, I can't appreciate the fun of the book collectors in the movies. As a result, books occupy most of my living space, which seems to be a little enslaved by foreign objects. I prefer the statement of Tianjin bibliophiles. He is not a book collector, but a book user and a book player. I appreciate this attitude towards books. Ordinary people of my generation are limited by funds and family space, but they can use books for me, reserve books with their heart, study with their heart, and have nothing outside their hearts. Books are not something to worship. They are things that accompany our friends, "book players", things that establish the closest relationship with books, things that do not take reading as a burden, and things that enjoy the fun brought by books. Books can be interesting to me, so I can become a book fan. Being a book fan is a pleasure.