Legal analysis: customers shoot books in bookstores, and books are not for sale. Bookstores own their own books and have the right to protect their property value from damage. Customers get information in books by taking photos instead of buying them, which harms the interests of bookstores. Therefore, bookstores have the right to prohibit customers from' photographing books' and may ask photographers to delete the photographed contents. Peng Hai said, in addition, if readers use the content for commercial purposes, or expand the scope of use through copying and the Internet. Let more people benefit from it, which may be suspected of infringing the author's copyright.

Legal basis: Article 22 of the Copyright Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) allows individuals to use other people's published works for study, research or appreciation without permission and without payment to the copyright owner. As long as it is not used for commercial purposes or to expand the scope of use, it is not illegal for readers to shoot books.