No.572 Luojiashan station is waiting for the bus.
There are many bookstores inside and outside Wuhan University. In the "encirclement" of full-price bookstores, a number of old bookstores survived, and some businesses were still booming.
Integration used bookstore
The comprehensive second-hand bookstore is about 600 meters away from the main entrance of Wuhan University, hidden in an alley on the side of the road. This old bookstore can be described as a "predecessor" among the old bookstores around Wuhan University, with a history of 18 years. The entire storefront is about 80 square meters, and most of them are all kinds of university textbooks, some literary reading materials, some old calligraphy and paintings, and old plaques. Most college textbooks are collected from students at the price of waste paper. Most literary books are scrapped or lost in various libraries, and the versions are older, most of which were published in the 1960s and 1970s. Old books here are usually 60% off or 6.5% off. However, literary books are generally sold at a premium because of their older versions, and the price is 10 times higher than the original price, ranging from 15 times.
The classification of books in the comprehensive second-hand bookstore is rough, and some categories are not clearly marked. The books in the bookstore are scattered, so it is difficult for readers to find the books they need at once, and there is no corresponding computer query system in the bookstore.
Although there are still various defects in operation, the business of the comprehensive second-hand bookstore has been good. How does the integrated old bookstore survive 18 years and develop? "Right time" and "right place" will be successful. "Geographical location" means that it was "born" around Wuhan University, and more than 40,000 students became its parents. And "Shi Tian" is a cross-school postgraduate entrance examination army with tens of thousands of people every year.
Compared with other used bookstores, the comprehensive used bookstore has some unique advantages. Because of its long history and many good books, it has a high reputation in Wuhan University and surrounding universities, including many old professors from Wuhan University who come here to search for books. Secondly, its variety is relatively complete, especially in terms of teaching materials, which is the first choice for some people who are going to apply for graduate students in Wuhan University.
Bowen old bookstore
Bowen's old bookstore, like the comprehensive old bookstore, is also hidden in another alley on the side of the road. Bowen's business area is relatively large, about 150 square meters. The books in the store are reasonably displayed and finely classified. The economic management textbooks and self-taught textbooks of the NPC edition and the mechanical industry edition are specially placed respectively. Within each category, it is divided into two categories.
Compared with the comprehensive second-hand bookstore, the operation of Bowen Bookstore is more flexible and diverse. For example, it has set up its own web page and publicized it online. Literature and art books include both old books from the sixties and seventies and some latest bestsellers. The pricing of Bowen's old bookstore is also very distinctive. For example, French and German textbooks are priced significantly higher than other old bookstores, while English textbooks are priced lower than other places. It seems that the boss has also applied the pricing strategy in marketing to actual combat.
Jiu study room
The second-hand bookstore and Bowen second-hand bookstore are in the same alley, across the road. The second-hand bookstore has a small business area of about 20 square meters. Because of the small area, there are few varieties on the shelves. The boss has been in this business for a long time and knows the version very well, so when many people don't know the version when buying books, the boss will ask him whether it is for postgraduate entrance examination or for class, and then find him the corresponding book. Due to the limitations of their own conditions, they may also want to create the effect of "only this one, no branch". Second-hand bookstores mostly choose some unpopular professional textbooks and relatively unpopular book sales. Although there are few buyers, they are relatively stable and can basically maintain the survival of bookstores.
Letao bookstore
Letao Bookstore is next to Wuhan University Travel Agency, with a small storefront of about 35 square meters. The boss is a graduate of the School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University in 2000, which has virtually narrowed the distance with many students and readers of Wuhan University. Like other old bookstores, this place mainly deals with old college textbooks.
Compared with other old bookstores, Letao Bookstore has its own characteristics. It broke the original old bookstore model, no longer simply collecting old books-putting them on shelves-selling, and created a refreshing business model. First of all, it adopts the method of "consignment". If students have used books for sale, they can get a 60% discount. Students will get a 30% discount after the books are sold. If it can't be sold, students can take the old books back or send them to the bookstore as waste paper. Secondly, it has its own online database. Readers can check the old books they need online by clicking on their website. This is unique in the old bookstores around Wuhan University. It is this model that attracts many students to buy books here. Third, establish a second-hand book information network. In order to save business area, Letao Bookstore will store some old book information on the computer and then take books from the seller when someone needs them.
The consignment mode and information network of used books save a lot of prepaid expenses and inventory costs for Letao, while the application of Internet and database in the sale of used books broadens the sales channels and provides two wings for Letao's development.
The expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities and the popularity of postgraduate entrance examination have spawned a fiery second-hand book market, but it always has its limits, and now it is approaching the limit. How did these old bookstores around Wuhan University transform? How to develop in the future? According to the author's observation, there may be the following development directions:
1. Multi-variety operation and chain operation. At present, some old bookstores have begun to sell new books and special price books while developing second-hand book business. Take Bowen Bookstore as an example. It has a row of bookshelves selling new books, and it has also opened up a place to sell special-priced books. In addition to selling books, the comprehensive second-hand bookstore also sells antique calligraphy and painting. There is no doubt about the significance of chain operation for general bookstores, and it is the same for second-hand bookstores, which can improve the sales rate of second-hand books and reduce unnecessary backlog and scrap.
2. Transforming into a book information intermediary. Like Letao Bookstore, it adopts consignment mode in operation, and makes use of network and database to facilitate customers. In the end, the main business is to provide book information services, find buyers for sellers, and sellers find sellers for buyers, which may eventually achieve "no shop operation".
Second-hand bookstores and markets
New books have the freshness of new books, and old books have the interest of old books. Readers who are eager for knowledge, of course, make bookstores large and small crowded, and the old book stalls in the streets are also undercurrent.
Tainingjie flea market
Located at the northern end of Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street (near Jinghan Avenue), it is the famous and largest second-hand book market in Wuhan, with about 30 or 40 second-hand book stalls, which are open for business on weekends. There are usually two or three old bookstores open for business; There are also two second-hand bookshops at the intersection nearby.
Besides old books and magazines, there are all kinds of old things: old records, badges, commemorative coins, cultural relics and old electronic products. The sound of opera records is floating in the street. It's really old Hankou, so old and cultured.
Wuhan Collectibles Market (Wuhan Philatelic Market)
No.92 Chongren Road, located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Chongren Road and Zhongshan Avenue. There are many booths, and all kinds of collectibles are: Cultural Revolution paintings, cartoons, cigarette paper, ceramics, paintings, telephone cards, stamps and so on. Needless to say, the price of Wumart is not cheap. The books here are not only old books, but also cultural relics, not for reading and learning, but for collection. Many comic auctions have been held here, which has a certain popularity in the country.
Ouyada dongyuan art plaza
It is located at the East Xu Dong Avenue of the Second Yangtze River Bridge, behind the Home Expo Center opposite the Arc de Triomphe Square. Near Xudong Road Station.
There are only three or four shops selling second-hand books, and there seem to be not many second-hand books. But the market also deals in antiques, calligraphy and painting, strange stones, root carvings, collectibles, handicrafts, aquatic animals, flowers and birds, bonsai and so on. These are all very interesting.
Other famous old bookstores are concentrated in Siyanjing in front of Wu Dazheng, the cavalry training ground of the provincial library, and Guiyuan Temple in Hanyang:
○ There is a "comprehensive second-hand bookstore" in the alley next to Sijing Wuhan Foreign Language Bookstore. Tel: (027)878874 15
Although the bookstore has an area of about 80 square meters, it is hidden in a deep alley, but the "wine fragrance" is not afraid of no business. There is a sign at the door "Wuhan Used Books Distribution Center". Among all the second-hand bookstores, this one is the neatest, with rows of bookshelves. It is said that there are more than 20,000 second-hand books with many kinds.
The boss here likes to use his head, "very smart" or "very dark", and he knows all about the listing of new books. "He will sell the books that will be eliminated at a very low price instead of buying them. For books with reserved value, he insists on the price-30% to 20% off, without bargaining. Accurate vision, timely replenishment of fresh blood, so that the integrated old book club is invincible. "
There are also two old bookstores in the alley next to the integration society: "Bowen Old Bookstore" and "Known Ancient Bookstore" (branch). Small area. Some picture books and picture books of the latter are more interesting, but the price is high.
There is a second-floor secondhand bookstore across the street. There are not many books, but many remedial classes.
○ There are three or four good old bookstores in the west of the provincial library of cavalry training ground, such as "Curious Antique Bookstore" and "Known Antique Bookstore", and there are basically no books for educational examinations.
Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics has a "Wuhan Zhenbao Old Book City" under the overpass, which is actually a very small shop, not worthy of the name. Old books are mostly English economic accounting. There is also a "Bitter Boat Old Bookstore" on the right side of the Finance Gate, with many teaching AIDS.
○ There is a "Canghai Ancient Bookstore" in front of Guiyuan Temple 100 meters. There are many good books, but they are more expensive and the store is cramped.
On the small street connecting Hanyang Avenue and Cuiwei Road nearby, there are three old bookstores/specialty bookstores, such as Xinmao Bookstore, which are located opposite Cuiwei Small Commodity Market. Most of the old books here are humanities and social sciences. There are two special price books concurrently, with a discount of 4.5%. The printing of special-price books seems to be the same as genuine books, and the varieties are mostly computers, economics and management, humanities and social sciences with high taste and pricing, such as Biography of Mao Zedong in the middle-aged edition and the central literature edition, Illustrated Biography of Giant and Twenty Lectures of World Famous Scholars translated by Fu Lei, Illustrated History of Cambridge and China in Shandong Pictorial Edition, Computer Science Series in Mechanical Industry Edition, Samuelson and so on. Highly recommended. (The boss here says it's a genuine book, and the low price is because the purchase channels are different-the boss is tight-lipped about what channels. )
○ There is a "Red House Old Bookstore" between Changchun Pass and No.15 Middle School in Dadongmen. Remote geographical location, small storefront. Come here if you have patience. There were many books on literature and history in the second half of last century.
There is an Expo Bookstore near the intersection of Hangkong Road and Vu Thang Road, which specializes in second-hand books and magazines.
There are also many old bookstores near other universities, and there are old textbooks and reference books on the market. For example, the old Yuyuan Bookstore diagonally opposite the main entrance of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Wenxing Bookstore in the east campus and the old Yuyuan Bookstore (branch) can account for more than 80%, mainly in science and technology and English; There are five or six old bookstores, such as Shilin, Liangyou and Zhongcheng, near Xiyuan, Nanhu Campus of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, which also focus on various teaching materials and counseling books. There are two old bookstores at the South Gate Overpass of Wuhan University of Technology (near the Publishing Culture City), which are mainly engaged in teaching AIDS. There are many books on literature and history in Wen Hui Bookstore in front of the west gate of Hubei University.
I looked everywhere on the internet,
I have been to almost all the places near Wuhan University. Very good, and there are many books.
I hope it works for you.