Independent bookstores, coffee flavor

Author: Xiaodan 

Impression entered primary school, when girls especially like to go after school, the corner bookstore, which is not only sweet, candy, cute stationery, there are some bizarre gifts, on another shelf full of comic slowly and story books, then after 95 years, hands no money, but every time there are friends and co-share buy things piecemeal. Shop owner greeted us very friendly, and we are not afraid of soiling her baby. The boys like to go to comic shop, although I have not been heard inside with rows of slot machines and other gaming flash. At that time even the Xinhua Bookstore, unlike later five of the book building so grand, bookstore owner relying on their own preferences, booksellers resources, geopolitical needs to buy books, books each store is different, but combined with the will to sell stickers and the like. Visiting the store "meet" book a pleasure, especially underground bookstores, bookstore inside the lights through the thin ramp mapped to the eyes, the sound of the iron fence of metal Guanglang tell a yearning in meaningful, therefore, in my mind, there is always the bookstore "amazing" feeling, like a paradise. With teenagers worry, there will be a man hiding on the bench.

　　But with age, decoration day after the old bookstore, library building at the gates of the cover up, they stand together with the commercial department and brand stores, bookstores childhood even more narrow, high school graduates go again, there are all changing supplementary books and piracy became inferior books, since they only went Books Building. Later, through that small bookstore, has been replaced by a small supermarket. Old streets because of several distinctive audio shop and bookstore closed easy to master, like lost Manner, as in the dark of my heart. 

That bookstore filled with candy, like a music box like forever in the hearts of rotation singing. 

Years ago, a friend who engage in publishing gave me a map of Beijing bookstore, spread this huge kraft paper along the banks of meditation in a dwelling house in the street of shops, such as grass, blue sheep, cartridges child , Yu Feng, sea stars, shore, learn and elegant, the May Fourth, etc., and the famous sidelines, between the lines, one-way street is also very striking, when the bookstore was called "independent" word when I came up with the unique meaning, because they retain the human touch. Internet has commented that independent bookstores should have three characteristics: First, nothing to attach, two humanities contemplation, three is perseverance. 

Large and small names on this map has finally caught my interest again, they look like colorful palette to the streets on the map, like painting a color, whether it is candy-colored or brown, it also reminds me once patronized Halloween bookstore.

A 2013 weekend classmates glowing from the bedroom bed pulled me up and said, "I'll take you to see ten thousand saints." From the North Metro A mouth out, pulled all the way in twos and threes with big headphones look like students who ask for directions, road Tong Yao Zhi "in front", so we do not have any hope of two people strolling, passing a dawn stationery , has indeed found a Halloween book Garden. Understated plaque inside the wooden floors and shelves together, the door to the hallway book glass showcase, not the hardcover edition and by the Tibetan version, but the major mainstream media familiar book, to narrow the distance with customers. Enough to get you around half an hour on a low door of the booth, four planes and inside enclosed "convex" character structure, each face there is always a want you to stop and turn a few pages, filling the boss's taste, any one of the contents and chapter setting is very particular about. Vertical bookshelf three facades into a C-type of a cheerful room, there are publishers by category, there are in accordance with the philosophy, history, culture, classification, under the category was divided into subcategories, such as archeology of a class, they the General Theory can be divided into archeology, ancient text, bones, inscriptions on the bamboo slips, bamboo and silk, stone, bronze, jade, ancient pottery, Dunhuang Studies, Western archeology, archaeological area also has a unique classification, such as "Westerners look at China." Glowing said bookstore owner once said, "to open a bookstore is an expression, some of the books is really very small minority, probably a year and can not meet the appointed person, but the event will certainly give love." Glowing day where to buy a few hundred books, including several hardcover edition paperback tome and some of the culture. Not only is glowing a man, surrounded by too many demands bundled package or direct home delivery of guests, many customers here in China, Korea and Japan to study the students, they are not fluent in Chinese to ask a clerk wearing a dark blue apron , about the history of the bookstore. Books regulars usually next to the "wake-off coffee," sit, talk and book club of like-minded, excited to say that the recent books, at the outlet is also a free accessible when the shelf, and recommend books of the year Examples striking coffee seminar listings held. 

There are such evaluation "on the network to go to Beijing to see Halloween, go to Nanjing to find pioneers, go to Shanghai to see the monsoon, to Hangzhou to find Fenglin late, go to Guangzhou to see excellent learning, to Shenzhen Book of it, to visit Taipei Eslite ...... "survival in the Internet era, these bookstores are not considered a commercial success, but the stock down is not easy. Development of e-books and mobile terminals can not rely on books more profitable, experienced publishing industrialization, commercial chain standardization, commercial real estate prices, after the mobile terminal of the Internet, you can still grow a quiet corner in the city that they do not like imagined so lonely, but have fixed a lot of regular customers patronize. 2013 an advertised "play cool reliable" after 95 girls Yang Yuhui "visited 100 independent bookstores plan" to make getting away from the focus of the independent bookstores that people return to public hotspots. 

Many studies on the independent bookstore business model began overwhelming, humanities descent, retro style, membership, catering facilities, Wi-Fi, commercialization independent bookstore gives the taste, always accompanied by a coffee maker and Western pastries. Although no longer a child candy taste, but at least in this virtual fragments gradually toward the Internet community, there is a flavor is always good. Glowing said she had a dream, and so the money to open a bookstore, there are coffee, sweets, books, and a cat is enough. Yes, every city in the achievements of a variety of dreams, some realized, some of the runs, in a corner of the city, when you go in, parked down the rhythm usually will change all of a sudden make you think dream, that is the memory of the warmest Harada.