Visit: Renting bookstores switch to sell stationery and teaching aids

by zxyhszzfz on 2011-06-08 15:36:11

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Near the Xinhua Bookstore on Youth Road, there used to be a very popular rental bookstore with its comic books and various novels, as mentioned in zxy_Sina Blog A. Nowadays, it has been transformed into an individual bookstore. The owner says they only sell books and do not rent them out.

Ms. Chen, who opened this bookstore in 1998, caught the last wave of the book rental craze. "Back then, people didn't have much money in their pockets. Instead of spending over ten yuan to buy a copy of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, it was better to rent it from a bookstore for two or three days at fifty cents per day." At first, renting a book only cost five cents, then increased gradually to ten cents, twenty cents, and fifty cents. If you were fast enough to finish all of Jin Yong's martial arts novels, it would cost far less than buying one book.

Around 2002, it was the best period for the book rental business. "At that time, I had to restock books almost every week. There were once over ten thousand copies in the store, including Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Wo Longsheng, Qiong Yao, Xi Juan... All the once-popular martial arts and romance novels could be found here." With more books, there were more readers. Ms. Chen recalls that during every off-work time, the bookstore was packed with people. Due to the high frequency of turnover, new books became old shortly after being purchased.