The autumn colors are just right, and it's time to read. On October 19, the 2023 Book Market Hangzhou Station kicked off at the Yuhang Liangzhu Culture and Art Center, attracting readers to read and check in. A total of 110 publishing and cultural institutions participated in this issue, including 63 domestic publishing brands and bookstores, 14 cultural and creative brands and individual studios, and more than 30 international publishing institutions exhibited by Zhongtu Shuke.
The reporter learned that among the publishing brands exhibited at the exhibition, there are not only publishing institutions from Hangzhou, such as Sen Yuman, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, etc., but also publishing institutions from outside the province, such as Phoenix Art and Century Wenjing. In addition, independent bookstores such as Ulysses, General Reader, Paradise, Mengdie, Huzhou's Anding Academy and Hainan's Second-hand Time Bookstore also came to the exhibition. "The book market is a veritable 'king of the publishing industry', inviting publishing houses and bookstores from all over the world to participate in the exhibition and set up stalls, where readers can read all kinds of original books, this trip is very worthwhile." Reader He Ningyu said. In the market, readers stand in front of stalls or sit on the steps, all carefully reading, looking for the resonance of people and books.
In this issue of the market, the organizers themselves have curated five small exhibitions, including "Before the Last Birth of a Book - Trial Reading This Exhibition" and "Bubble Book Fair - Zhuozhou Flood Disaster Book Exhibition", and commissioned by the German Book Center, the winning works of "Germany's Most Beautiful Book 2022" and "German Book Award 2022" were also exhibited. At the same time, Sen Yuman and other publishing institutions have prepared more than 20 mini book fairs, which also present readers with many different "book looks". "Hangzhou Station continues Beijing's planning, with books as the absolute protagonist, and still has a super high 'book inclusion rate'." Liu Song, a staff member of the organizer of the book market, said that since its establishment in 2013, Books has been focusing on "books" and is committed to presenting everything related to books.
The book market is also the market with the highest concentration of editors. Hundreds of book editors and shop owners are on duty to set up stalls, and tens of thousands of books exhibited are personally selected by editors or managers, and stall owners take the initiative to communicate with readers and tell the stories behind the books. "As an editor, this is a great opportunity to meet readers face to face, understand what readers need, and have a mental collision and induction with readers in order to produce books that are more suitable." Mint experiment editor Huang Yangyuan said.
In the future, Yuhang will take the running of the book market as an important starting point, continuously promote the reading of the whole people, cultivate the city's cultural heritage in the fragrance of books, nourish the civilized temperament of the city, and use the "book market" to thickly plant "book fragrance Yuhang".