Kyoko SHIBANO
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association, 63(8) 310-314, Aug 1, 2013
During the past decade, the number of bookstores decreased to approximately 70% in Japan. Particularly small independent bookstores are closing rapidly, and also large scale bookstores and chain bookstores encounter many difficulties caused by new business players as Amazon Japan. After overviewing those trends, this paper aims to experimentally discuss about the influence brought by online bookstores to real space, and the "reality" newly discovered in the opposition of virtual reality.