Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Digital book & mobile device

It is predicted that digital book & mobile device grow popular in Japan this year.
Japan's book industry did not go digital because of the book industrial structure.


In the lecture, the industry structure of the book in Japan introduced.
There are three main parts of structure; publishing, wholesale bookseller, and bookstore. The wholesale bookseller is strong in the three.

I looked at each industry in Japan. As a results, it seems that especially publishing companies have a hard time. Two major publishers had a big deficit. On the other hand, profit of wholesale booksellers stay about the same.


I think the stream of digital book will go. I want to use this device.





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