"Let's start a bookstore: New possibilities for local bookstores" by Masayuki Waki (editor)
ISBN:978-4-910511-75-7
Bookstores are culture. Bookstores are hot right now!
Amidst the publishing industry's slump, independent bookstores, or "new styles of local bookstores," are opening one after another. Even today, unique and attractive spaces are being created all over Japan.
This book explores the modern "shape of a bookstore" that was born in an era when people can start a bookstore with passion and ideas, even in the midst of a recession, through the valuable testimonies of 18 booksellers.
(18 bookstores featured)
Flaneur Bookstore / Nata Bookstore / Lunuganga Bookstore / Shikaku / ON READING / BOOKSHOP Hon to Hitsuji / Kikai Shobo / mountain bookcase / Sozoro Bookstore / twililight / Arusuku Monoi / Elephant's Journey Bookstore / FOLK old book store / READAN DEAT / YATO / Hiruneko Books / WARP HOLE BOOKS / BOOKSHOP TRAVELLER
192 pages, 46-size paperback
table of contents
Introduction
Topic
BOOKSHOP TRAVELLER
There is value in narrowness Masayuki Waki
Chapter 1: Running a bookstore in town: Learning about various aspects of bookstore management
Flaneur Bookstore Ryota Kurei Yoshiyuki Fujii Lunuganga Bookstore Yusuke Nakamura Shikaku Yuki Takeshige
The Rise of Independent Bookstores: A Bookstore Writer's Personal History ① by Masayuki Waki
Chapter 2: How I opened a bookstore: From preparation to continuation
BOOKSHOP Books and Sheep / Machine Books / mountain bookcase / Sozoro Books / twililight / Arusuku Monoi / Bookstore Elephant's Journey / FOLK old book store / READAN DEAT / YATO / Hiruneko Books / WARP HOLE BOOKS
A new type of bookstore: A personal history of a bookstore writer ② by Masayuki Waki
Chapter 3: Thinking about bookstores from books: Understanding the situation surrounding bookstores Masayuki Waki
The Survival of Local Bookstores, or the Ecosystem of Books
Reasons for reading books or not reading
Current status of shelf rental bookstores
If you want to start a bookstore
[Supervisor profile]
Masayuki Waki
A bookstore writer. He is also the owner of BOOKSHOP TRAVELLER, a bookstore antenna shop in Soshigaya, Tokyo. In 2010, while continuing to work as an office worker, he started a blog called "Books and My World" to report on independent bookstores. He is now independent and mainly runs the "BOOKSHOP LOVER" portal site to enjoy bookstores even more, and also holds events such as "Introduction to Bookstores." He is also involved in a wide range of activities related to bookstores and books, such as contributing to various media such as the "BOOKS" serial in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper, and editing the Digital Library email newsletter.
