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10-04-2014, 01:30 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
I used to read much more than I do today. Enjoyed war & history, science-fiction. Perhaps I should revive that habit, get a good book, sit by the beach or pool and let my thoughts wander into the author's story. Paperbacks are fine. I can't get used to reading at length staring at an electronic monitor.
Cheers!
First 24-hr Beijing bookstore opens
English.news.cn 2014-04-09 07:25:27
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing opened but did not close its doors on Tuesday, to the applause of a bookish public.
The Sanlian Taofen Bookstore, owned by China Publishing Group Corp., announced on Tuesday that 10-day trial of the 24-hour bookstore from Tuesday until April 18, and if the trial goes smoothly the store may never close again.
Manager Zhang Zuozhen said 3 million yuan ( 480,000 U.S.dollars) has been invested in the operation. The news was met with a warm welcome from netizens. "Yi Ren DU" said "the bookstore has guts... in an era when people read less than four books a year."
According to a survey by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication in 2013, Chinese people read 4.39 books per capita in the past year, a figure that trails far behind major developed countries. The reading rate has actually dropped from 60.4 percent in 2000 to 54.9 percent in 2012.
"The 24-hour bookstore has shed a slim of light on the nation's pursuit of intellectual nourishment," Netizen "RunEmma" said.
Established in 1996, the bookstore is in the Dongcheng District of downtown Beijing.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?179132-China-opens-24-hour-bookstore&goto=newpost).
I used to read much more than I do today. Enjoyed war & history, science-fiction. Perhaps I should revive that habit, get a good book, sit by the beach or pool and let my thoughts wander into the author's story. Paperbacks are fine. I can't get used to reading at length staring at an electronic monitor.
Cheers!
First 24-hr Beijing bookstore opens
English.news.cn 2014-04-09 07:25:27
BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing opened but did not close its doors on Tuesday, to the applause of a bookish public.
The Sanlian Taofen Bookstore, owned by China Publishing Group Corp., announced on Tuesday that 10-day trial of the 24-hour bookstore from Tuesday until April 18, and if the trial goes smoothly the store may never close again.
Manager Zhang Zuozhen said 3 million yuan ( 480,000 U.S.dollars) has been invested in the operation. The news was met with a warm welcome from netizens. "Yi Ren DU" said "the bookstore has guts... in an era when people read less than four books a year."
According to a survey by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication in 2013, Chinese people read 4.39 books per capita in the past year, a figure that trails far behind major developed countries. The reading rate has actually dropped from 60.4 percent in 2000 to 54.9 percent in 2012.
"The 24-hour bookstore has shed a slim of light on the nation's pursuit of intellectual nourishment," Netizen "RunEmma" said.
Established in 1996, the bookstore is in the Dongcheng District of downtown Beijing.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?179132-China-opens-24-hour-bookstore&goto=newpost).