Bookstore's Indomitable Manifesto [Chinese]

By Kumiko Taguchi

Maybe in the next decade, there will be no more bookstore clerks. Will the people who guard the books also disappear? Kumiko Taguchi began her career as a bookstore clerk in 1973, and the next forty years have been a tour de force. Her tour was to atone for her sins, and she had to pass on to the next generation the "passion" that had energized her in her life as a bookstore clerk. She moved from the small bookstore Kiddy Land to the personalized bookstore Libro, which continued to be a hit for 20 years, and finally became the vice president of the large bookstore Junkudo Ikebukuro. She has experienced the bookstore's prosperous period, and then... In 2000, the bubble economy came to Japan, and Amazon came to Japan. Amazon's arrival in Japan tore through the Japanese bookstore industry like a wild animal, overturning the traditional model of bookstore management. At the same time, the new wave of the Internet swept the world, and in the decaying bookstore culture, paper books were no longer the preferred choice of readers, and intangible e-books became the trend. Bookstores are losing their "merchandise" and are rapidly dying.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 626752048X
• ISBN13: 9786267520482
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Ma Ke Bo Luo