I love to spend hours browsing in a bookstore on a rainy day.
我喜欢在下雨天在书店里悠闲地翻阅书籍。
The new bookstore in town has an extensive collection of rare books.
城里的新书店有大量珍本书籍。
She found a vintage copy of her favorite book in an old bookstore.
她在一家旧书店找到了她最喜欢的书的古董版。
The bookstore's cozy atmosphere invites readers to linger.
书店舒适的氛围让人愿意久留。
They offer a discount for students who buy textbooks at the campus bookstore.
校园书店为购买教科书的学生提供折扣。
Online
bookstores have revolutionized the way we purchase reading materials.
网上书店已经彻底改变了我们购买阅读材料的方式。
The bookstore hosts regular author talks and book signings.
书店会定期举办作家讲座和签书活动。
I discovered a hidden gem of a bookstore tucked away in a quiet alley.
我在一个安静的小巷里发现了一家隐藏的书店宝藏。
The bookstore has a section dedicated to local history and culture.
书店有一个专门介绍本地历史和文化的区域。
She subscribed to the bookstore's newsletter to stay updated on new releases.
她订阅了书店的通讯，以便了解新书发布的信息。
"Wanfeng Bricks has a wide range of sales channels, including e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba and JD, and offline cooperation with bookstores and museums.
“万丰砖的销售渠道非常广泛，包括阿里巴巴、京东等电商平台，以及与书店、博物馆的线下合作。
Chinese leading milk-tea maker Nayuki opened its first bookstore in Beijing on Friday, as the company continues to upgrade and innovate its business to tap into more demand.
中国领先的奶茶品牌奈雪于上周五在北京开设了其首家书店，继续升级和创新业务以挖掘更多需求。
Located in Zhongguancun, the bookstore is surrounded by dozens of universities such as Tsinghua University.
这家书店位于中关村，周围有清华大学等数十所大学。
Its prospectus showed that as of May this year, New Oriental has set up 104 schools, 1,361 learning centers and 12 bookstores in 91 cities across the country.
其招股书显示，截至今年5月，新东方已在内地91个城市设立104所学校、1361个学习中心和12家书店。
Alibaba has launched other highly automated projects for bookstores and grocery stores.
In the digital era, traditional publishers and bookstores are facing the challenge from the internet.
The new building is planned to host a campus bookstore and auxiliary services and is intended to be an icon for the campus.
The Fresh Air Books Bar, which was transformed from a traditional Xinhua Bookstore in Baoding, Hebei province.
[Photo/China Daily by Zhang Yu]State-owned Xinhua Bookstore Group plans to update its out-of-date shops to match a new breed of traditional outlets and online retailers.
"We are adapting to a modern trend where people want a comfortable reading environment," said Song Wenjuan, chairman of Baoding Guanglian Digital New-Media Co Ltd, which was involved in the bookstore's transformation.
"Instead of just buying books and leaving the store straight away, customers can sit down in a cozy place to read in a quiet atmosphere," said Yang Xiaohong, deputy general manager of Baoding Xinhua Bookstore Co Ltd, which runs the bar and 38 outlets in the city.
"This is totally different from the old Xinhua bookstores where there was nowhere to read in comfort," Wang, 36, said.
Baoding Xinhua Bookstore, a five-story shop covering 5,655 sq m, will be upgraded into a cultural complex similar to the Fresh Air Books Bar.
In the future, Chan said, Yanxuan will probably try more offline business modes, such as bookstores and other brick-and-mortar retail outlets.
China's bookstores have been very busy during weekends as more people are choosing to read books as a way to entertain and relax in their spare time.
He is a frequenter of the "Letter and Harmony" bookstore; He also actively participates in the sketch arrangement of "No Knowledge is Terrible", which was acted successfully on the reception of Alexander consulate and embassy in Egypt.
They include grocery stores, supermarkets, restaurants, bookstores, housekeeping businesses, beauty salons, parcel lockers, laundries and repair shops.
With only a 10-minute walk, Wang and her son can reach Chaoyang's Hopson One Mall, a shopping center that offers many types of services including dining, leisure activities, preschool education, sports, a cinema and bookstores.
The new version of the store has introduced nearly 100 new brands, with a cinema, a digital bookstore and numerous restaurant outlets famous on the internet soon to open.
For Beijing's central business district, where most foreign enterprises are located, the municipal government had more public facilities, such as convenience stores, cafes and bookstores, settled to better shore up the function of the area.
The French government, for instance, recently ordered the shuttering of restaurants, bookstores and other "nonessential" businesses and is only keeping supermarkets, electronics chains and online retailers operational as consumers shelter in their homes.
"It was decided at the meeting that 31 sectors in Pudong New Area including e-commerce, construction, convenience stores, cafeterias, cinema, gyms and bookstores will start the integrated license reform, which will merge multiple licenses into one for market access.
The report said that short-video platforms became the second-largest book sales channel, following e-commerce platforms, and bookstore sales continued a downward trend.
The city has shaped new types of consumption formats that integrate the consumption of coffee with bookstores, gardening and Chinese opera, the report found.
HAIKOU — Imagine a place where you can ride a motorboat in the blue sea, sip coffee while reading in a seaside bookstore, enjoy a candlelight dinner or simply unwind with some self-brewed tea on the beach under the starry night sky.
Bookstores and cafes have also been established inside.
In addition, a number of coffee shops, bookstores and luxury stores are available at the terminal, which provide memorable, stress-free shopping experiences for passengers.
According to Xu Jiong, head of the municipal administration for press and publication, the book fair will highlight a number of new bookstores, each of which has a distinctive specialty and characteristic.
据市新闻出版局局长徐炯介绍，书展将重点推介一批各具特色、特点鲜明的新书店。
The book fair will also introduce a new online map featuring brick-and-mortar bookstores in the city.
书展还将推出一款全新的线上地图，收录本市实体书店信息。
This year, the fair will invite for the first time online bookstores such as JD and e-commerce platforms on short-video sharing platform Douyin to participate in the showcase.
今年，书展将首次邀请京东等线上书店以及短视频分享平台抖音上的电商平台参与展示。
Meituan Dianping, another food delivery and lifestyle services platform, has teamed up with 72 brick-and-mortar bookstores in Beijing to launch "takeout" services to attract more customers.
A number of bars, museums, bookstores and shopping malls joined the festival with extended business hours and activities like night tours, shopping, dining, reading and live shows.
Offline noncore products and services, social retail through livestreaming and e-commerce embraced to deal with risksWhen Jiang Wei made his first major investment by opening a bookstore in Shanghai in early January, he wanted to prove it's a normal profitable business that can support itself rather than his being seen as committing an act of charitable behavior among nostalgic intellectuals clinging to tradition.
Jiang's Therion was one of the first bookstores to reopen in the city on Feb 10.
Like other offline retailers suffering from the epidemic, bookstores have been severely affected even after reopening their doors.
Dan Jie, chairman and CEO of bookstore chain Yanjiyou, said most of its 62 stores nationwide had closed or shortened business hours due to epidemic controls, with visitor numbers decreasing by 80 percent and revenue by 95 percent.
Sales from Zhongshuge bookstore, with 24 stores nationwide, reached 1.05 million yuan ($149,000) from January to mid-March, which was only 13 percent of sales recorded during the same period last year.
According to a survey by Chinese brick-and-mortar bookstore alliance Shumeng, about 90 percent of its 1,021 respondents across China had closed by Feb 5, and 79 percent said their current funds could only support operations for another three months.
Sun Qian, founder of the alliance, said small and medium-sized bookstores that rely on a single business are facing the most pressure in terms of rent, human resources and debt.
Brick-and-mortar bookstores have faced challenges from e-commerce for a long time with their disadvantages in terms of pricing and convenience, and the epidemic has just worsened the situation, experts said.
Data from Beijing-based research firm Openbook showed online book sales grew 24.9 percent year-on-year to reach 71.51 billion yuan in 2019, while sales among bookstores fell 4.24 percent to about 30.76 billion yuan.
"Over the last several years, most bookstores have transformed themselves into lifestyle shops to survive the impact of e-commerce－offering coffee, travel accessories and stationery－to attract consumers and provide better shopping experiences," said George Ren, senior partner and vice-president of consultancy Roland Berger China.
And the function of bookstores has expanded from merely selling books to cultural and entertaining consumption－to evolve into "a hub of events and gatherings for publishing companies, writers, key opinion leaders and book enthusiasts", Ren added.
The novel coronavirus epidemic has also forced bookstores to develop a digital touch.
On March 9, six independent bookstore owners gathered at the livestreaming room of Taobao's toptier influencer Viya Huang.
In early March, 72 physical bookstores in Beijing became the first to sell books using on-demand service platform Meituan－with support from the Beijing municipal government－to increase revenue.
"Though the bookstore emphasizes offline experiences, the online channel meets demand of readers who want to read but don't want to go out," Dan said.
Many cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Xi'an and Hangzhou have released preferential policies to help bookstores, such as government subsidies, rent reductions, encouraging publishers to extend payment periods and promoting online book clubs, sales and delivery.
com, a publishing and book selling industry platform, told People's Daily that bookstores need to enhance connections with readers through WeChat accounts, online groups and memberships, to maintain a steady and growing pool of users.
He also suggested bookstores develop diversified and stable income structures that include both offline nonbook products and services, and online social retail and e-commerce, to improve the ability to deal with risks.
As the coronavirus epidemic spreads across the country, bookstores are investing more in the online market to further explore sales channels, according to Beijing Business Today.
据《北京商报》报道，随着新冠病毒疫情在全国范围内扩散，书店正在加大对线上市场的投资以进一步开拓销售渠道。
Zhongshuge Bookstore, a modern and highly popular place in China in recent years, and traditional chains such as Beijing Xinhua Bookstore, Beijing Book Building and Wangfujing Bookstore have all shifted their main markets from offline to online, promoting sales through livesteaming and limited-time book discounts.
近年来，在中国备受欢迎的现代书店“钟书阁”以及传统的连锁书店如北京新华书店、北京图书大厦和王府井书店，都已经将其主要市场从线下转移到线上，通过直播带货和限时图书折扣等方式推动销售。
On Feb 4, Zhongshuge Bookstore made its first livesteaming on Taobao, attracting nearly 9,000 people in 4 hours, receiving more than 10,000 interactive messages and 27,000 likes.
在2月4日，钟书阁书店在其淘宝平台进行了首次直播，4小时内吸引了近9000人观看，收获了超过10000条互动留言和27000个点赞。
People always kill time by reading and studying when at home, but buying books offline during the virus outbreak has been troublesome, the bookstore told Beijing Business Today.
“人们在家时总是通过阅读和学习来消磨时间，但在疫情期间，线下购买书籍变得十分麻烦，书店告诉《北京商报》。”
Beijing Xinhua Bookstore and Wangfujing Bookstore all launched online sales promotion since they have been temporarily shut down because of outbreak.
A number of books are offered at different discounts, and online bookstores also set up a display area of books about health knowledge targeting the epidemic, with general discount of 20 percent to 30 percent.
"A variety of online bookstores will bring huge competition to original e-commerce vendors, but in fact they can meet the needs of different readers and stimulate market vitality, serving as one of the supporting forces for the development of their offline physical bookstores," said Tang Yong, a senior publisher, to Beijing Business Today.
Wei Pengju, head of the National Center of Cultural Innovational Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics, noted that it may take a long time for the business of offline bookstores to recover after the outbreak.
Bookstores turn innovative to attract digital-age consumers and stay afloatE-books, e-book readers and e-commerce may be transforming the publishing industry as well as people's reading habits globally, but the brick-and-mortar bookstores aren't in the mood to throw in the towel just yet.
Faced with the prospect of declining sales and dwindling footfalls, bookstores are writing a new chapter in the history of China's publishing industry by turning innovative and underlining enriched experiences for consumers.
For example, digital-age bookstores incorporate an in-store cafe space.
This novel approach is attracting hardcore readers, especially young consumers, back to bookstores where selfie-taking is not unusual.
For their part, bookstores are paying attention to the quality of books they offer.
Catering, entertainment and creative events provide the icing on the intellectual cake, said publishing industry experts, adding they are bullish on the growth potential of future bookstores.
"In the age of New Retail, physical bookstores should be able to provide diversified business formats, and become places that integrate functions like reading and learning, demonstration and communications, and creative lifestyle consumption," said Li Zheng, research manager at the Leadleo Research Institute, a market research provider.
"A lot of bookstores that are popular online draw consumers by their unique and beautiful designs.
Mofanshuju Bookstore, an independent chain with four outlets in Beijing, has one of its branches located in a renovated church in an ancient hutong (old alleyways flanked by traditional courtyard houses).
The church's high roof and open space brighten the bookstore.
Founded in 2014, the bookstore aims to inherit and promote traditional Chinese culture.
The bookstore showcases moveable type printing.
Arguably, it is the highest bookstore in the world, and has received throngs of visitors since its opening on Aug 12.
On its first day, enthusiastic visitors had to wait for three hours before they could take the elevator of the tallest skyscraper in the country to reach the bookstore 239 meters above the ground floor.
Also, the bookstore has launched its own book club named "The Top of Shanghai", hosting talks, workshops and other events every other week.
Strolling in the bookstore, you could see that aside from avid booklovers there are quite a number of curious tourists attracted by the view or publicity.
"With the fast-expansion commercial property development drawing to an end, we are also incorporating dining spaces into various scenarios, such as bookstores and convenient stores, which serve as a natural extension as dining spaces and therefore boost sales," Wu said.
Physical bookstores in China have taken the path of integrated development and transformation and upgrading, thanks to favorable policies introduced in recent years, said Liu.
Ai Limin, director-general of the Books and Periodicals Distribution Association of China, said that it has become a main-stream trend for bookstores to promote the integration of online and offline stores.
"We plan to renovate the walkways, as some are always crowded and no longer meet growing demands for sightseeing, and also set up more service stops that contain local cultural elements, such as bookstores," said Ye Suqin, head of the Burqin tourism bureau.
Beijing was crowned the Chinese city with most bookstores last year, as the number of bookstores in the city reached 6,719, nearly double the 3,463 of second-place winner Chengdu, according to a list of cities with the most bookstores in China.
Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shanghai with 2,473; 2,441 and 2,379 bookstores respectively took third to fifth on the list.
From a regional market perspective, the Yangtze River Delta has the highest concentration of brick-and-mortar bookstores in China with a total of more than 8,000, covering Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nantong, Ningbo and Nanjing.
There are three bookstores in Beijing for every 10,000 people, and two in Chengdu, Hangzhou, Dalian and Nantong, per data from Bookdao New Publishing Institute and the local statistics bureau.
With a slew of financial and policy supports, brick-and-mortar bookstores are expected to serve as comprehensive cultural experience centers where consumers can not only read and buy books but also have a cup of coffee, a nice meal and get together with family and friends, Li said.
Bookstores will become a major force attracting customers to shopping malls and one of the most important indicators of a city's cultural prosperity in the future, Li said.
The Beijing municipal government is breathing life back into the brick-and-mortar bookstore industry as it faces pressure from the booming e-commerce sector, soaring rents and the growing popularity of digital books.
Since the emergence of e-commerce and digital reading materials, their convenience and cheaper prices have presented a challenge for physical bookstores.
Despite Ernest Hemingway's belief that "There is no friend as loyal as a book", it is now easier to find a coffee shop in Beijing than a bookstore.
Thus, the Beijing government in July announced a plan to support bookstores by providing 50 million yuan ($7.33 million) per year to help establish more than 150 bookstores over the next few years.
The city will also encourage an influential bookstore chain to set up branches in busy streets, commercial centers, residential areas and at tourist attractions to improve visibility.
The physical bookstore sector showed positive growth of 2.33 percent year-on-year with market size reaching 34.4 billion yuan.
Although the numbers show some positive signs for brick-and-mortar bookstores, the profits of such shops are shrinking.
Qu Defang, general manager of Sanlian Taofen Bookstore, said the company generated 11 million yuan in 2017, with a profit of 360,000 yuan.
"Yan Bofei, CEO of Shanghai Jifeng Bookstore, an independent bookshop that had to shut down earlier this year, said soaring rents were the initial pressure bookstore operators faced.
Many new feature bookstores have emerged, combining traditional bookstores with cafes, event venues, even clothing and furniture stores.
"Many think the physical bookstore is on the verge of death.
Amazon never should have been allowed to prevent Apple from establishing an online bookstore that better supported book publishers.
Several book malls established in "Bookstore Street" in Zhongguancun attracted a large number of customers, many of whom stayed in the street for an entire day to select the books they wanted.
"However, after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 and bookstores started to mushroom throughout Beijing, the popularity of the book plaza in Zhongguancun started to wane," Chen said.
"At the busiest time in 2003, we had to wait half an hour for service at a restaurant at lunchtime because there was always a long line due to the popularity of the bookstores," Chen said.
They can also borrow books without a deposit from Jinan Library and 44 bookstores in the city.