Haruki’s work is almost bought up?

Haruki Murakami is one of the most famous Japanese author in Japan. He has been expected to win Nobel prize in Literature but not yet.

picture quoted from Wikipedia.

According to Japanese media Shinbunkasya, nine out of ten Haruki’s first edition books of Haruki got reserved by Kikuniya, one of the biggest bookstore companies in Japan.


Today, more and more people use online bookstores such as Amazon.co.jp(Amazon.com), and many bookstores in the streets have suffered drop in sales. So Kikuniya tries to prevent such online bookstore from selling books. The number of first edition of Haruki’s new book is 100 thousand. And 90,000 is reserved by Kikuniya and 5,000 will be supplied online bookstores.
But this must result in ironical end. Bookworms will get disappointed at such bookstores and less and less spend money on them.