介绍:
A popular bookstore in Hefei, Anhui Province has become a shared bookstore in order to encourage people to read more books.
The Sanxiaokou Xinhua Bookstore first rose to fame in 2014. Now it is back in the spotlight, as more than 200,000 visitors flooded into the store on its first day as a shared bookstore on July 16, 2017. Some 4,000 books were brought home on the first day.
Customers are allowed to borrow up to two books valued under 150 yuan per visit after registering with an app and paying the 99 yuan deposit fee.
All books on sale in the bookstore are available for the service. Returned books that are damaged are sold at a discount. The bookstore also provides a bonus for bookworms. People who finish reading 12 books in three months can receive 80% of their deposit back, and its members can receive one yuan for every book read.
“We want to bring down the cost of reading so that people read more books,” said Xu Xinwei, who helps run the bookstore.
Some parents buy a lot of books for their children, but they usually end up collecting dust as their children grow up. Similarly, some popular novels for young people also fall out of fashion, according to Xu. Books are more effectively circulated when they’re shared.
