What is the future development trend of bookstores?

The value of books in the next 30 years must be electronic and digital. This point, whether we accept it subjectively or not, is an inevitable trend that is happening. The core of human pursuit is the enrollment rate of higher education, so paper books will be like ancient bamboo scrolls in the future, and no one will care, at most, they will have some collection significance.

Is the physical bookstore worthless? Let me ask you a question first: What does a physical bookstore do? Just to buy books like a grocery store? If a book is just a commodity, it is an insult to the book. A book is the concentrated crystallization of the author's wisdom. Therefore, the real value of books is not commodity value, but thinking value. The value of thinking belongs not only to the author, but also to the reader.

Therefore, the significance of the bookstore should be this kind of thinking value. I believe that the research, understanding and wisdom of a bookstore owner for each book is unique. So in fact, bookstores should be the least competitive, because the thinking value of every bookstore owner is not only books, but also life experiences and personal wisdom.

I believe that the bookstore in the future will be a community of bookstore owners, a heart-to-heart club with bookstore owners as the brand and fans gathered. People come here to pay for the wisdom of bookstore owners, listen to their talk shows and share their experiences. What growth needs is the collision of wisdom, spending a little money and colliding with different people in one place, which will be the way to acquire knowledge and wisdom in the future and the real meaning of bookstores.