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面朝西湖,書香無邊。杭州市民和來杭州的游客發(fā)現(xiàn),西湖邊又多了一處“最美書店”——言幾又今日閱讀IN77店。人們在附近游西湖、看電影、逛商場,順道走進書店,挑本書,臨窗而坐,窗外的西湖山水“秒變”成最美的閱讀背景。如此美妙的閱讀體驗引來不少網友點贊:“伴西湖四季,句句留香?!?/p>
杭州的實體書店正加速落地。不久前,杭州市文廣旅局提供的數(shù)據顯示:2018年,杭州新增實體書店319家,比2017年增長28.6%,接近于每天新增一家實體書店,增速創(chuàng)歷史新高;全年圖書銷售總額18.68億元,人均年購書額達234.47元。
而這樣的加速落地還在繼續(xù)。最新數(shù)據顯示,2019年1月1日至2月12日,杭州再增46家實體書店。至此,杭州全市實體書店總數(shù)達3157家,相當于每3000人就擁有一家實體書店。
如今的紅紅火火,讓人不禁想到實體書店此前經歷的那波寒潮。2012年,我國傳統(tǒng)圖書零售業(yè)銷售額首次出現(xiàn)負增長。為扶持實體書店的發(fā)展,2013年,中央財政在包括杭州在內的12個城市開展實體書店扶持試點工作。如今,在國家和地方一系列政策的推動下,實體書店再次迎來發(fā)展高潮。在這增長趨勢中,實體書店的業(yè)態(tài)和格局正在發(fā)生怎樣的變化,又將為我省全民閱讀帶來哪些新氣象?
杭州正在迅速成為全國知名書店的集聚地。繼西西弗、言幾又、鐘書閣相繼落戶杭州后,獨立書店品牌“單向空間”也正式入駐杭州遠洋樂堤港。
這是“單向空間”首次在北京以外開出書店,是它在全國的第4家門店,也是長三角地區(qū)首家旗艦店。
書店位于樂堤港三樓,總面積超過2000平方米,共3層。一樓為創(chuàng)造區(qū),主要推薦當代優(yōu)秀青年創(chuàng)作群體的新書;二樓為沉浸區(qū),分人文社科、藝術、生活等專題區(qū),同時在各個區(qū)域設計大小不等的座位,供讀者坐下來閱讀;三樓為參與區(qū),有親子書、二手書等,以分享交流為主。
“這是今年杭州新增書店里單體面積最大的一家?!焙贾菔形膹V旅局市場處負責人王衛(wèi)平說。在為期半個月的預開業(yè)期間,書店舉辦了16場閱讀分享會。就在開業(yè)當天,名為“第四屆單向空間書店文學獎”的活動同時舉行,吸引了戴錦華、陳冠中、許知遠等學者參與。因報名太踴躍,書店還對活動現(xiàn)場進行了視頻直播。
開在樂堤港的“單向空間”,從某種程度上反映了實體書店選址的新趨勢。在傳統(tǒng)的書店業(yè)人士看來,街邊有人流量,校園里有目標群體,是最佳的選址地。而在新一輪的開店大潮中,實體書店開始走向更細分的目標群體。其中,對外地品牌書店而言,商業(yè)綜合體成為最多的選擇。可以看到的狀況是,近年來杭州新增的綜合體內至少會引進一家書店,國大城市廣場甚至開出3家以圖書和圖書周邊產品為銷售主體的實體書店。
“實體書店,正在成為新零售時代的流量擔當?!倍辔粫曦撠熑吮磉_了同樣的觀點。以鐘書閣書店為例,在進駐杭州的當天,人流量超過2.3萬人次,書店所在地杭州濱江星光大道更是成為游客來杭的打卡地之一。正是看中這種超強的導流能力,書店已成為城市商業(yè)綜合體的“標配”。
相比較而言,本地書店更重視地方文化的營造:曉風書屋去年新增3家分店,分別開在浙大一院、良渚博物院和寫字樓里;鳳翮筑夢書屋則布局社區(qū)店和校園店;純真年代書吧也在杭州楊柳郡社區(qū)開出首家分店。
不僅如此,書店還開進了高速服務區(qū)。位于杭千高速建德服務區(qū)的新書店,由聯(lián)華華商集團打造。據了解,聯(lián)華試水實體書店已不是第一次。早在前兩年,它就和浙江省新華書店集團合作,在西湖文化廣場店內開設“書香世家”,增強零售體驗。
值得關注的是,在新增書店中,出現(xiàn)了不少鄉(xiāng)村書店的身影。2019年元旦前夕,位于杭州蕭山區(qū)河上鎮(zhèn)的最美鄉(xiāng)村書店“綠野書舍”正式開張。白墻黛瓦的空間里,靈動柔光的照射下,數(shù)萬冊新書靜立在錯落有致的木質書架中,十分溫馨。這樣溫潤的鄉(xiāng)村書店正在各地開花,桐廬大同鎮(zhèn)也剛開出一家篤志書屋,受到當?shù)刈x者歡迎。
文化消費的快速介入,深刻改變著實體書店業(yè)的經營內容。筆者走訪了3家新書店,看看書店里都有哪些新變化。
第一家是零點書房,去年1月開業(yè),開在蕭山市心橋旁邊,營業(yè)至每晚24時,由新華書店打造。書店里有很多科技元素,比如導購機器人“小新”、自助購書、智能圖書定位等服務;店內還有許多文化元素,有中國歷代著名書法作品展、諾貝爾文學獎主題墻;書店里還有咖啡店,讓讀者享受“一個人,一杯咖啡,一本書”的靜謐生活。
第二家是曉風鶴廬書齋,去年8月開業(yè),開在浙大一院住院部一樓。這也是曉風書屋的第二家醫(yī)院書店。書店面積約100平方米,有兩萬冊書籍,書的品種以傳統(tǒng)文學為主,契合醫(yī)院文化的“治愈系”屬性。書店還銷售近百種豐子愷文創(chuàng)產品,如書簽、茶具、帆布包等。
第三家是言幾又IN77店。這是“言幾又”過去一年在杭州新開的第5家門店。在空間布局上,書店分為圖書區(qū)、童書區(qū)、文創(chuàng)區(qū)和休閑區(qū)。圖書區(qū)內,陳列著近3萬種圖書,其中四分之一為外文版和藝術設計類;文創(chuàng)區(qū)以日常生活用品為主,如玻璃器皿、絲巾、手作等,其中不乏本土品牌;休閑區(qū)位于書店臨西湖最好的位置,可供讀者坐下來交流分享。
從這三家書店的經營范圍來看,零點書房和“言幾又”引入休閑消費區(qū),曉風書屋引入圖書周邊產業(yè)。實體書店不再僅僅賣書,“書+”正在成為民營書店轉型的集體選擇。
這樣的跨界并非個例。一位書店經營者介紹說,他的書店去年圖書銷售與往年基本持平,咖啡休閑消費增長10%,文創(chuàng)產品銷售增長40%。杭州市印刷發(fā)行協(xié)會負責人李大軍認為,“這一趨勢得益于近年來中央鼓勵實體書店多元發(fā)展、復合經營的大背景”。
實體書店也在進入高顏值時代。近年來,無論是國有書店還是民營書店,能夠成為網友眼中的“網紅書店”,最重要的因素就是空間設計。用李大軍的話說,高顏值是新開書店最主要的特點。
比如言幾又IN77店,就是由日本設計師森下悠也操刀,以西湖為主題,整體布局成“西湖倒影”“西湖漣漪”“山脊線”三部分。
另一個值得注意的現(xiàn)象是,多種產業(yè)開始進軍書店業(yè)。去年11月底,獨角獸企業(yè)“媽媽去哪兒”聯(lián)合浙江省新華書店集團在三墩開出首家親子書店。在這里,既有尿不濕等嬰童用品,又有育兒書籍等文化用品,還有嬰童嬉戲、媽媽產后修復等多重區(qū)域。
事實上,除了零售業(yè),餐飲業(yè)、設計業(yè)、汽車銷售業(yè)等多個領域也紛紛進入實體書店業(yè)。
實體書店的變化,不僅僅是引入新業(yè)態(tài),更在于主動走出去,通過圖書業(yè)態(tài)為其他行業(yè)賦能,打造新型文化交流空間。浙江省新華書店集團董事長王忠義認為,未來的書店,必定是以用戶為中心來研究新需求,以新技術為手段來提升服務力,真正實現(xiàn)把書店融入人們的美好生活中去。
當筆者奔波在調研路上時,微信朋友圈里又傳來一家新書店開業(yè)的消息。杭州浣紗路上新開了一家吾南書社,店主的“愛”就是將一整面墻的書架給了一套書——《浙江文叢》。這是浙江人文歷史的第一部百科全書,僅一期體量就超過500冊、1.2億文字。
書店是“城市之光”,它以怎樣的方式存在于我們的日常生活中,必將潛移默化地影響一座城市的生活品質和精神狀態(tài)。
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More than Books:Love and Culture Shared in Bookstores
By Li Yuehong, Sun Kai
As most avid readers will tell you, encountering a good book can be one of the most rewarding experiences known to man. This is so true on the lakeshores of Hangzhou, where the joy of reading can be tasted by sitting beside the window facing the intoxicatingly beautiful lakescape. A newcomer of the citys lakeside bookstore “club” is Yan Ji You, set in the chic IN77 mall.
Hangzhou is justifiably a “reading city”, strewn with countless serene hideaways for book lovers. Wherever you turn, a bookstore is just around the corner. Statistics show 319 bookstores joined the city in the year 2018 and the year generated a total book sales revenue reaching 1.868 billion yuan. From January 1 to February 12, 2019, the city saw the opening of another 46 bookstores and the total number of physical bookstores reaching 3,157. It seems that this city has somehow been spared the widespread damage done to “brick-and-mortar” bookstores elsewhere by the outbreak of electronic books and online bookstores. The citys bustling bookstore scene is also the result of a governmental campaign launched by the central government in 2013 to boost bookstore investment in 12 cities across the country.
Following Sisyphus, Yan Ji You and Zhong Shu Ge, OWSPACE recently opened its first bookstore outside Beijing. The Hangzhou location, set in the Grand Canal Space, is also the brands fourth “child” in China and the flagship store in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Decked out on three floors, OWSPACE adds significantly to the citys reading atmosphere in the shape of a book-cum-lifestyle outlet. The bookstore presents not only a comprehensive selection of categorized books and periodicals shelved together, but lures one into a stimulating environment loaded with a whole range of lifestyle items and exquisite goods of a cultural nature. It also includes a special parents-and-children zone and a secondhand book zone set on the third floor.
The Hangzhou branch of OWSPACE is also the largest of the bookstores newly added to the citys bookstore list. Within only two weeks after its opening, it organized as many as 16 reading parties including the inaugural meeting attended by a group of cultural celebrities including Dai Jinhua and Xu Zhiyuan. The brand goes to great lengths to promote reading for people of all ages and walks of life by providing an attractive and stimulating learning environment.
The launch of OWSPACE also reveals a noticeable trend regarding the selection of location in Hangzhou. Shopping malls have become a reliable option – the opening of Zhong Shu Ge at the Star Avenue in the citys Binjiang District in 2016 caused a stir in the city, drawing in about 23,000 people on the opening day.
Xiaofeng Bookstore, having long been the citys de facto cultural rendezvous point, launched three new branches in 2018 to better fulfill its “community service” policy. The new location of Innocent Ages, at the Yangliujun residential neighborhood in Hangzhou, quickly became an integral part of the community, with residents taking full advantage of the opportunity to be whisked away into the fascinating world of books. Bookstores in Hangzhou even have their tentacles reaching expressway service areas – drivers on the Hangzhou-Qiandaohu Expressway can take a break at the bookstore located in the Jiande Service Station.
The launch of “the most beautiful country bookstore” at the tail-end of Chinese Lunar Year, 2018 brought a first-class collection of reading materials into Heshang Town in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou. Beautifully adapted to the old-fashioned atmosphere of the town, the bookstore lends a brilliant final touch to the overall historical magnificence of the town interlacing with an engaging, pastoral setting.
“Smart features” are adding a great deal to the appeal of bookstores, as can be seen at the “00:00 Bookstore”, opened a year ago in downtown Xiaoshan. Visitors are served by tech-powered facilities including the service from “Xiaoxin” – the bookstores shopping guide and the pleasant services of a lovely café corner.
The citys dizzying collection of fine bookstores sells more than books: it spreads the message that books and reading can bind lives as surely as any shared love and adds a cultural quality to the social fabric. Bookstores are one of the most prized possessions of Hangzhou - the Muse of the city; and the joy of reading is a tangible part of everyday life here.
“The future of bookstores will be geared toward the real needs of users; and the power of technology will be playing an increasingly important role in making bookstores a life necessity for all people,” remarks Wang Zhongyi, president of Zhejiang Xinhua Bookstore Group, the biggest bookstore chain in the province.