Founded in 2013, it took only a few years for the Carver Bookstore to take shape, and now it has three stores in Changsha, located in Taozi Lake, Meixi Lake and Shawan Rainbow. In the early days, Carver relied heavily on volunteers to help its operations, but it is now on track.
Surprisingly, Carver's biggest highlight is not the size of its bookstore or the selection of books, but the offline lectures. Unlike the fast-food, one-off lectures that are common in the industry today, the lectures at Carver are quite like lectures, which often take 2-4 sessions to cover a topic, and these topics are relatively obscure.
The Carver Bookstore on the shore of Peach Lake is the brand's first store after its transformation, and because of its close proximity to Hunan Normal University, most of the readers are students. The façade of this store is very small, and when you enter through the door, you will find that there is a hole inside, and the inside is square and neatly planned, and you can see the whole picture of the bookstore at a glance. Among them are tables, chairs, sofas, surrounded by brown bookshelves on three sides, and a bar counter on one side. Six categories of books, including the use of management, the beauty of art, the lessons of history, philosophical reflections, the sense of humanity, and the night of literature, are placed on top of the books.
Shawan Rainbow Store is the largest store of the Carver brand, which has a business area of more than 500 square meters, a collection of more than 12,000 books, and is divided into six spaces.