Roof Bookstore of the World: The largest bookstores in the world appear in Beijing.
Not an upgraded version of Haidian Bookstore, not an oversized Eslite Bookstore, not a four-story Sanlian Bookstore, not a high-taste Xidan Bookstore ... This is the roof of the world bookstore, a completely unique pillar.
In Taipei, even on a rainy Sunday, you can still see many people stop in front of Eslite Bookstore and put away their umbrellas. Regular customers who patronize Eslite know that there is an unwritten agreement here. They will consciously put rain gear in front of the bookstore, and some will put on their own shoe covers and quietly walk into the bookstore to enjoy the quiet time here. Because for people in Taiwan Province Province, this is not an ordinary bookstore, but a home, a full-time library, a spiritual home for book lovers and a base for making friends. In Eslite, no one can say how long he will stay this time, because this is a bookstore that doesn't close for 24 hours. Hungry and thirsty, there are food and coffee upstairs, as well as shops and galleries. The bookstore is a paradise paved with spotless wooden floors. Music, the smell of coffee and the light of goose yellow ... no matter early morning, late night or early morning, Eslite promises to enjoy this book forever as long as you are willing to come.
People in Taiwan Province Province have their own complex about Eslite. Known as the best bookstore in Taiwan Province Province, it has now become the most famous and humanistic cultural landmark in Taiwan Province, so that as the pride of the cultural image of Taiwan Province Province, it is listed as a special "attraction" that tourists must visit, just like the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Japanese writer Takedao 123 even seriously considered whether to move his family to Taipei because of the existence of this bookstore ... 17 opened a bookstore. Insist that 15 is not profitable. Up to now, there are more than 50 stores in Taiwan Province, and the number of people coming in and out is as high as 5.5 million every year. This super brand appeal sounds more like magic.
Not only in Eslite Bookstore, but all over the world, people are enjoying the pleasure of buying books in bookstores. The bookstore with the most standard personality in Taiwan Province Province has almost no decoration, but the knowledgeable boss often guides the guests how to choose books to read, which is very popular with customers. What is more attractive is that the price of standard books is almost the lowest in Taiwan Province. New york's Gaotan Library, Shi Chuande Bookstore and Philadelphia's Bode Bookstore all have exquisite and elegant decorations, comfortable seats everywhere, fragrant coffee areas, longer business hours than department stores, and more than 20 cultural activities every month, such as poetry recital, weekend mini-concert, children's story time, new book release and author's signature. These bookstores naturally become social places for local fashion people to meet and talk. Heidi Resler, the owner of "Chef Bookstore" in London, was originally just a housewife who loved cooking but was often worried about not being able to buy good recipes. With her enthusiasm and boldness, she opened this bookstore and searched all kinds of recipes and wine-related books around the world: from the most popular Happy Cooking to the extremely unpopular Exotic Mauritian Diet, and even the exotic Why Don't You Spit Bugs are all in the "Chef Bookstore". She even equipped a set of modern kitchen utensils in the library, and invited a famous chef to class every Saturday to explain her specialty dishes while cooking. Interested people will have the opportunity to learn from chefs as long as they spend about RMB in 300 yuan. After class, they can also taste the finished products and have a full meal. Because only 15 people can attend each time, many gourmets who are determined to "eat" always make an appointment in advance. Because of its convenient location, complete books and friendly service, "Chef Bookstore" has become a frequent place for chefs, gourmets and food critics, where you can not only exchange ideas, but also draw inspiration from books ... What about Beijing?
"After the opening of Roof Bookstore of the World, it will replace Xidan Bookstore as the world's largest new store of all kinds of books, but our wish does not stop there. We hope to be the home of all the new generation readers, "Ouyang Xu, chairman of the Roof of the World Bookstore, said when describing the future prospects of the bookstore. "Here, when they buy books, they also buy the brand-new life concept we provide." With an open area of nearly 20,000 square meters, there are 300,000 kinds of books and 65,438+10,000 kinds of audio-visual products on the bookshelf, with complete varieties and categories, but you don't have to worry about being submerged in the overwhelming sea of books. Here are the most advanced and humanized book classification methods. The bookstore is located on the 4th-7th floors of the roof of the World Creative World, with four themes: fashion, humanities, science and education and life. Each floor has a small theme bookstore with the style of a store. There are 30 book retrieval systems on each floor, and each special book area has a computer for retrieval, which can ensure that readers can find the books they want within 30 seconds after entering the store. In addition, Feng Kangge's intellectual design in Jian Yuepai, Germany, is clean, straightforward, pleasing to the eye, elegant black floor and ceiling, cleverly arranged lighting in the wall, looming music and lovely and humanized log bookshelf, so that even people with disabilities in wheelchairs don't have to worry about not getting books on the top shelf.
"In addition to books, we also provide the most advanced service concept and humanized service like five-star hotels," said the person in charge of the bookstore. "Now many people go to bookstores not to buy books, but to read and copy books. We have specially prepared post-it notes and pencils for those who may forget to bring stationery. In order to make it easier for readers to sit down and read, we specially prepared Mazar at 1000 and small stools at 120. The round wooden floor will be polished every day. When you are tired, you can sit down and read quietly in a specific passage area at any time, which will never hinder others from taking books in front of the bookshelf. The clerk of the Roof of the World Bookstore should know and love books, recommend suitable books for you when readers are hesitant, and even talk with interested readers at any time; Surrounded by transparent glass curtain walls, when the sun is shining, sitting in the bookstore can see the beautiful western hills overlooking the unnamed lake of Peking University ... "
These operators are obviously perfectionists, because they have not let go of any detail. There are well-designed bathrooms to ensure the fragrance of the four seasons; There is a nursery and a stroller for housewives; There are wheelchairs, sewing kits, reading glasses and even stretchers; There are toilets for the disabled ... they look for books, read books and copy books. They consider almost every aspect of convenience for readers and eliminate all possible inconveniences. This is the service concept of the World Roof Bookstore. If you are thirsty, there is a coffee shop in the bookstore and a tea room on the sixth floor. Hungry, there is a West Point Hall on the 7th floor. You can take the elevator down to the next floor. There are more than 5000 square meters of food street, you can choose from hundreds of choices, and on the 1-3 floor, there are six restaurants with different flavors, such as Mediterranean restaurant, vegetarian restaurant, Jiangnan kitchen and KFC ... high quality and many choices, good books and good dishes are the most perfect reading life.
"Turn reading into a kind of life"-Roof Bookstore of the World runs such a seemingly surreal ideal with brand-new creativity and meticulous care. "People who come to the Roof of the World Bookstore are not only book buyers, but also culturally advanced consumers," said Ouyang Xu, chairman of the Roof of the World Bookstore. He has eight years' experience in running Guo Bookstore, and has planned bestseller lists, reading parties and regularly promoting good books, all of which have made Guo look different. Indeed, this is definitely not an upgraded book city, it is just a book wholesale market; The Roof Bookstore of the World is not an eslite either, it has a super scale that can be more attractive; It is not three-fold, universal, narrow, obscure, brand-new and broad. The Roof Bookstore of the World is not the fashionable Xidan Book Building. Here, you don't have to worry about the noisy environment and the confusion and helplessness in the sea of books, and you won't stand on your feet because you have nowhere to sit ... The most distinctive features are the 4th and 7th floors, where there are specialized Shanghai bookstores and Tibetan bookstores, and the bookstores in Taiwan Province Province are all original books in Taiwan Province Province. Best-selling stores can find almost all the latest and hottest books on the lists of major rankings and monitoring centers. Women's bookstores are full of books related to women, including beauty salons, fashions, homes and emotions. There are all kinds of books in the hobby and collection area: stamps, antiques, insect specimens and mineral collections to meet the needs of various special people. Isn't that enough? The multifunctional hall with an area of more than 300 square meters in the bookstore will continuously invite scholars and masters from all over the world to give lectures here. Simultaneous interpretation equipment in eight languages will make the internationalization of invitees no longer a problem. Among them, there may be Nobel Prize winners, artists, economists, entrepreneurs and writers you have only seen on TV who will sign books in bookstores.
When a bookstore contains not only books, but also the spirit of humanity, creativity, art and life, it is no longer just a place to buy books and pay for them. This is the charm of Roof of the World bookstore. In Ouyang Xu's ideal, the Roof of the World Bookstore should become the "third space" outside consumers' work and family-when you are not at home, you are at the Roof of the World Bookstore; Not at the Roof of the World Bookstore, but on the way to the Roof of the World Bookstore. Fortunately, this huge spiritual reading room does not require you to pay any necessary rent, provided that you can afford it and never pay it.
Far from the yuppie positioning of Eslite Bookstore, the target group of the World Bookstore is all the new generation of book lovers. It doesn't matter who they are, but they must have the same temperament as Roof of the World Bookstore: fresh, interesting, creative, emphasizing the quality of life, loving simplicity, having a sense of fashion, distinctive personality and pursuing the uniqueness of the spiritual world. The store has the most reasonable guidance system and humanized tips; On the light box are poster exhibitions and graphic works by avant-garde artists. The book fair held from time to time shows the most special and beautifully bound books. The wall of the bookstore is covered with "empty" graffiti painted by artists, and the graffiti wall specially set aside is a space for children to go crazy; As part of the public art exhibition, the graphic works of avant-garde artists will appear in the light boxes and preset multimedia walls of bookstores ... this is really surreal. You are very picky, seldom idle, like telling jokes, don't like wearing ties, and you are still a liberal at heart. Besides, you were just passing by? Then come in and hang out. There are many friends and colleagues in the Roof of the World Bookstore.
July 15 is the opening day of the Roof Bookstore of the World. I have to admit, I have been waiting. /kloc-when I was 0/5 years old, I used to walk in the book city, my waist was sore and my legs were weak, and I was hungry. /kloc-when we were 0/8 years old, we rode a bicycle for a long time, stayed in Beitu for a day, read three books, bought some steamed buns at noon, and then bought a one-dollar Bible in the second-hand bookstore downstairs. At the age of 25, I can finally read Roof of the World with peace of mind, and it is 300,000 copies ... Although the bigger one is not always more perfect, it may be getting closer and closer to perfection-maybe soon, someone will start renting apartments with sufficient light and fresh air in Haidian Town, because the roof of the World Bookstore is nearby.