The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami in Japan today released his new book, a collection of a dozen essays, with an initial print run of 100,000 copies have been bought mostly by a Japanese bookstore to stop their sale on the internet.
The work, “Shokugyo toshiteno Shosetsuka” (“novelist profession”, Japanese), is available almost exclusively in the Kinokuniya stores chain, he decided to seize 90% first edition as a gesture in defense of traditional bookstores versus digital platforms
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Kinokuniya also distribute the work in other chains and small Japanese bookstores, which welcomed the initiative to the increasing competition from online retail portals like Amazon or Rakuten, according to Japanese media gathered today.
“Shokugyo toshiteno Shosetsuka” Murakami collected essays, some of them already published in the literary magazine Monkey, which reviews his career as a writer with reflections and personal experiences, according to his publisher, the Japanese Switch Publishing .
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The new work author of “Tokyo Blues” follows in his bibliography “Mr. Murakami Space,” a selection of the content published online in their office, which went on sale in late July.
Despite to branch Amazon Japan could only be done with a small number of copies of the work among this, Rakuten and other local platforms are distributed around 10,000 units-, the book is placed today among the best sellers in the online portal.
Source: EFE
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