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Sense and Sensibility : Reflections on the Development of Physical Bookstores in China

  

  1. (School of Journalism and New Media, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049)(School of
    Journalism and Communication, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119)
  • Online:2023-05-15 Published:2023-06-07

Abstract:

Based on the analysis of the development status of the bookstore, this paper,
through the purpose sampling and snowball sampling, has used the research methods of
questionnaire survey and in-depth interview, from the perspective of readers to explore the
development of the bookstore. The analysis results show that the problems restricting the
development of bookstores are mainly concentrated in three aspects : one is the price of books at
the institutional level, the other is the interweaving of capital at the social level, and the emotional
problems at the personal level. Accordingly, this paper puts forward some suggestions for the
development of physical bookstores in the future. One is to reshape the order of book prices;
the second is to meet people’s cultural needs at different levels through the differentiated
development of different bookstores ;third, we should put people at the core and pay attention to
the value of people.

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