Passers-by have raised eyebrows, and even the owner of the mobile phone can't help but go in and have a look. However, when I look around, there are more people watching and fewer people buying. After customers choose books and weigh them, most of them choose to leave without paying, and they will mutter: I didn't expect books to be so heavy! The weighed price has caught up with the original price of the book. However, some people are happy to pay on the spot, thinking that they have got a big bargain.
Books are sold by the catty. Is it worth planning them? I wanted to verify it on the spot, but I didn't have time to rush. When I got home, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was difficult to weigh books, so I dug out books with different weights at home, weighed them with a kitchen scale accurate to grams, and compared their prices with the original prices of books.
Second, maybe you think it's too far away to think about it. It doesn't matter. Let's imagine it together. Maybe, after 100 years. ...
/kloc-a multifunctional watch will be produced in 0/00 years. Just like a computer, you can chat and look up information online. Some people may ask, where is the keyboard? Don't worry, there are two choices: you can choose to slide the keyboard or open the touch screen, that's all. Besides surfing the internet, you can also make video calls, play games, read e-books and listen to music ... although such a small watch contains many functions!
/kloc-in 0/00 years, there will be an electronic homing pigeon, which will be responsible for delivering letters. This homing pigeon is no different from a real pigeon except for its small screen. All you have to do is write down the recipient's city, recipient's name, gender, work unit and school on the screen, and then enter the content. As long as you press the "send" button, the electronic homing pigeon will fly to the recipient. Don't feel that sending letters is slow, and don't feel that you will be shot down. It takes no more than 3 minutes to deliver the letter. And its body is equipped with a defense system and will not be shot down.
Third, books are sold by the catty like radish and cabbage, which makes people feel sad!
It is undeniable that in the era when the digital reading rate has exceeded the traditional reading rate, this move has a certain effect on popularizing public reading and alleviating the "mobile phone dependence". However, is it necessary to sell books at such a low price to spread knowledge?
Hungry people don't eat what they get, and thirsty people don't drink stolen springs. Why? Just for dignity. Cultural knowledge is also dignified. How can it be sold cheaply and blasphemous?
In reality, it is not uncommon to ignore the great value and lofty status of cultural products and despise them. Not long ago, a case about compensation for cultural relics damage in Beijing Palace Museum caused a heated discussion. Why? These two national treasures of the late Qing Dynasty, which were transported to Taiwan Province Province for exhibition, were damaged due to improper transportation, and the organizer and the Forbidden City jointly sued. Results The judicial authorities in Taiwan Province Province awarded compensation of NT$ 100 per kilogram. Coincidentally, a passenger flew from Shanghai to Tianjin Binhai International Airport. After the plane landed, he found that two "enamel painted gold bowls" worth 260 million yuan in checked baggage were destroyed into pieces. The airline also claims that according to the relevant regulations, compensation can only be made according to the standard of 1 kg 100 yuan. Funny? Shocked? Anger? When books are sold at the weight of radish and cabbage, and national treasures are compensated at the weight of pots and pans, where is our cultural dignity? Where is the dignity? It can be seen that cultural products, as carriers of knowledge and culture, are no longer ordinary commodities. Excessive commercialization will only make it lose its original style and taste, and will only distort people's values.
On gold selling and gold compensation is not only an insult to the dignity of knowledge and culture, but also a disrespect for excellent culture and art such as shark fin. I'd like to ask, when you see Historical Records, which is known as "the swan song of historians, Li Sao has no rhyme", and Dream of Red Mansions, the pinnacle of Cao Xueqin's classical novel, which is known as "the encyclopedia of feudal society in China", mixed with those "cultural fast food" and sold at low prices? Aren't you ashamed? Some excellent books are treated in this way, which is a blasphemy against classics, a great disrespect for creators and ancestors. In a sense, this is the sorrow of China culture. On the contrary, in some developed countries in Europe and America, the price of the same book is much higher. It is not that their paper is much more expensive, the printing cost is much higher, and the profit pursued by sellers is much greater. The fundamental reason lies in respect for intellectual property rights and awe of culture.
Selling books cheaply will devalue knowledge, embarrass culture, make authors sad and leave many sequelae for readers. Yuan Mei mentioned in Huang Sheng's On Borrowing Books that "you can't read books without borrowing them", which is very insightful. In fact, books are often cherished because of their rarity, and people know more about its value. If some fine works and fine arts are sold like this for a long time, how many people will feel "like a treasure" when they see their favorite books? How many people will be hungry for this, "jumping on bread like a hungry person"? I'm afraid there will only be a lot of littered waste paper, and the values of loving knowledge and respecting culture will be trampled along with these waste paper. A person who truly respects knowledge and loves books, even if Luoyang paper is expensive, will give everything. Why do you want to use this cheap way to lure?
Books with great historical and cultural value are not things that look down on the world from a golden platform, but they are not turnips and cabbages. How can they be sold by the catty? Shouldering the mission of cultural disseminator, if you really want to create a scholarly world in the hustle and bustle, earthly world of mortals and digital besieged city, why not learn from Eslite Bookstore in Taiwan Province Province to change its service mode instead of deliberately fighting psychological price war with readers? Covered with solid wood floors, clean and dust-free, strewn at random, just for the convenience of scholars to sit; Waiting for 24 hours, you can buy books or read books for five or six hours without interruption: the quiet and noble atmosphere makes you feel how dignified reading and buying books is! This is Eslite. No wonder Bai said, "If Taipei is often chosen as a tourist destination in the future, there must be a reason: Eslite is here."
Therefore, if the book is really fragrant and the butterfly is coming, why sell it cheaply?