Coffee bar

In Chengdu, chain bookstores, such as Southwest Book City under Xinhua Distribution Group, have increased sales areas for cultural goods and digital products, and set up coffee bars; small and medium-sized private bookstores, such as Zhiai Bookstore, are filled with a variety of creative products such as novel styles, exquisite drawings and unique designs, such as stationery, clothes and hats, and readers can save value with membership cards.

Membership, coffee bars, creative bazaars, cultural lectures, movie salons. The consumption of these culturally related products and services is increasingly introduced into the operation of physical bookstores, which has become the biggest change in the business model of physical bookstores in recent years.

With the advent of the Internet era, the transformation of public reading methods and the price and distribution advantages of online bookstores have a great impact on the operation of physical bookstores. During this period, many private bookstores had to close down because of rising costs and meagre profits.