As the owner of a leisure and entertainment bookstore, he can certainly relate to what was said in the daily newspaper.
Even when Zhang Zhong first emerged in the literary world, people came to the bookstore mainly to read popular novels. Later, they were even divided into science fiction camp and detective suspense camp.
But I don’t know since when, there was an additional camp of serious novels.
And this camp did not arise out of thin air. They were also separated from the science fiction camp and the detective suspense camp.
These readers may have only been interested in Zhang Zhong's science fiction novels or detective suspense novels at first, but they fell in love with Zhang Zhong's traditional novels as soon as they read them.
Why Zhang Zhong's traditional novels sell so well is partly because the works are indeed excellent, and partly because the popular novels have brought him a huge fan base.
Even if one in 10,000 readers every day is willing to read a traditional novel because of the tension, this number is still very impressive.
Nowadays, in bookstores, you can often see many people holding a copy of "Border Town", "Alive" or "The Ordinary World" in their hands.
Two years ago, Zhang Junwei would not have dared to think about this, but now he has become accustomed to it.
He suddenly remembered the chat he had with a sales friend a few years ago. At first, the two just chatted about some gossip. Later, the friend asked Zhang Junwei what he was doing recently. Zhang Junwei told his friend that he had been reading a good book recently, and he deliberately
I recommended the book title to a friend.
Zhang Junwei was very uncomfortable with his friend's reaction at that time.
"I'll go, you're so cool."
What he recommended was just a very ordinary novel, not far from highbrow, let alone crooked. Anyone who has received compulsory education can read that book, but my friend still felt that reading such a novel
The book is very stylish.
In fact, this has nothing to do with what book Zhang Junwei reads. In the eyes of his friends, as long as he is reading, he is very good.
And my friend has already said it very tactfully, maybe she will feel that Zhang Junwei is just showing off.
That friend is not an uneducated person. He is a college student who graduated from a certain 211 University and is an intellectual with higher education.
But precisely because of this, Zhang Junwei felt even more uncomfortable.
These people who have been reading for more than ten or twenty years and have received higher education still hold the idea that reading is pretentious. You can imagine how poor the reading environment in China is.
If even scholars don't read much, let alone expect others to do so.
Some people may say that since there are so many college students nowadays, it is normal for many to dislike reading.
But how good are Chinese college students really?
Perhaps the numbers are not bad, but proportionally speaking, only a few percent of people in China have a bachelor's degree or above.
My friend’s 211 will crush most people even more.
And that friend is not a special case. There are many highly educated people around Zhang Junwei who are not very educated.
There are so many entertainment activities nowadays. You can watch one movie in two hours, or two if you fast forward. You can watch dozens or even hundreds of short videos in two hours, and you can play several games on the PC.
More than a dozen rounds of mobile games.
But I couldn’t finish a book in two hours.
And if Zhang Zhong can seize people's time in such a big environment, you can understand the greatness of it.
A few days ago, Zhang Junwei saw a post in that friend's circle of friends, saying that he had watched the movie "The Last Starfish" and thought it was very good, so he bought a copy of the original book and went back to read it carefully.
Although I don’t know if this friend has finished reading this book in the end, this is undoubtedly a good sign. At least he is willing to go into the bookstore, and his previous view of "reading books is pretentious" has also been reversed.
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Also at the beginning of the year, a young couple came to the bookstore. They were still college students. The girl was named Yu Jing and the boy was named Li Yu. According to them, they met on the day that "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was released.
It was the first time Yu Jing went to a bookstore to read a science fiction novel, and she read it for several hours. It was at that time that she met her boyfriend, who was a fan of Zhang Zhong, and the two formed a bond.
Later, Yu Jing rarely watched those idol dramas and romance novels, and began to read some serious books, science fiction, suspense, detective and traditional literature.
These living examples around Zhang Junwei made him very clear that what was said in the daily newspaper was not an exaggeration. There were really many people who embarked on a journey of science fiction and entered the world of detectives because of Zhang Zhong, and then won the praise of traditional literature.
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"What are you thinking about?" His wife's voice brought Zhang Junwei back to reality from his memories. He smiled, "I wonder if I can see this number reach thirty in my lifetime."
Li Tianyi laughed, "How dare you think about it? Do you know what thirty is?"
"Of course I know. If it were before, I would never dare to think about it, but now I suddenly have a little confidence. Maybe in a few decades, the country's basic education will be better and the cultural atmosphere will be stronger. This data will not be impossible.
Isn’t this what Tan Zhang Zhong is doing now? He has sponsored so many Hope Primary Schools and regularly donates books to primary schools. Isn’t he cultivating children’s reading habits? Isn’t this the same way we open bookstores?
What’s your original intention?”
The more Zhang Junwei talked, the more excited he became, his eyes full of expectation.
Li Tianyi was infected by her husband's emotions and took a deep breath, "After you said that, I started to think about it. If there really is such a day, when we walk on the road, we can see someone holding a book on the side of the road.
Sitting on a bench and reading a book, life must be wonderful."
"Haha, at least it's more comfortable than playing it on video software." Zhang Junwei joked.
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The data from the daily newspaper spread quickly, and book fans were discussing it eagerly.
And it also set off a wave of "showing off" craze.
Many people have compiled lists of books they have read over the past year and posted them online, proudly declaring that they have made a small contribution to this data.
[This is all the paper books I have read this year. I will not take out the electronic books. It took me several hours to find them before sorting them out.]
[Wow, the original poster must have hundreds of copies. 】
[Haha, most of them are magazines. I must buy every issue of "Zero Zero One" and "Agitation Literature". I occasionally buy a copy of other magazines, and it doesn't cost much or take up much time. 】
[They say it doesn’t cost much, but these books and magazines together probably cost several thousand yuan. I don’t dare to compare. I don’t dare to compare.]
[I haven’t calculated it. Anyway, buying a magazine every week only costs a few dozen yuan at most, and buying one or two stand-alone novels would cost a few hundred yuan a month, but I didn’t feel it when I bought it.]
[It’s true, I bought “Zero Zero One” every time. I didn’t feel anything about the few yuan a book cost. If you calculate it, it would cost hundreds a year. 】