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Chongqing News

Perfect combination of books, culture and art at Beicang Bookstore

2017-05-09 09:56:04

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Speaking of bookstores in Chongqing, students may buy reference books at Xinhua Bookstore, adults may buy new books at Sisyphe, and those who borrow books may have a card of a national library. How do other bookstores make profits? In order to survive, those private bookstores provide readers with buffet, beverage, activities and commodities which attract your attention upon arrival. The Nbooks Club, for example, makes profits via its homestay program. However, in the noisy business district, there is a free bookstore which is also defined as a library: Beicang Library.

A free bookstore

Gao Xiaosong set up a bookstore in Beijing for free.

Beicang Library is free too: you will find only computers, no menus, which means that you are not required to buy any beverage. The salesperson will tell you: you can read any books, sit down anywhere, and you can choose to buy the book you like or not.

However, Beicang Library is not only a library but a “culture storage space”. So, it is most suitable for such space to be named as “library”.

Except for books, you can also find other commodities here. For instance, Eslite Bookstore and Fangsuo provide many independently designed living supplies. However, the designers of Beicang Library are from Chongqing, so the supplies here are designed by local designers.

 

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Editor:Jiang Yiwei