Japan is a large market for bookselling industry. According to the case‚ Japanese retail bookselling industry has an annual sale of nearly 8 billion dollars. Even though there seem to be a big opportunity for the retail bookselling company to entry Japan‚ there are things that need to be considered‚ especially a law of Resale Price Maintenance System or Saihan System. Since 1953 Japanese publications must be sold at fix price due to the Saihan system. It has a huge impact on the publication business
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Case Study of “Bookoff‚ Amazon Japan‚ and the Japanese Retail Bookselling Industry” 1. The reasons for the profitability of large Japanese retail booksellers relatively poor and their scale relatively small. One reason for this is that there is no significant industry consolidation has occurred‚ so there is no dominant bookseller‚ because there is a unique formal institution which is price-fixing system that makes it illegal for larger and potentially more efficient competitors to use price competition
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The Case Study of “Bookoff‚ Amazon Japan‚ and the Japanese Retail Bookselling Industry” Una Hu 1 Why is the profitability of large Japanese retail booksellers relatively poor and their scale relatively small? According to the case‚ ‘stagnation in sales along with the steady increase of costs over time has reduced the profitability of both large chains and small stores’ (Peng 2009‚ p. 391). There are several reasons that results in the relatively poor profitability of large Japanese retail booksellers
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Bookselling in Japan The following is a slightly modified version of a paper submitted by Siebert Neethling as an assignment for a Master’s Degree course in International Business in 2009. The paper answered specific questions relating to a case study on the book industry in Japan and information is relevant to the case study as presented. Integrative Case Study BOOKOFF‚ AMAZON JAPAN‚ AND THE JAPANESE RETAIL BOOKSELLING INDUSTRY Siebert Neethling On a per capita basis‚ the Japanese book industry
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Communicating CSR: Case Study of Japanese Food Industry Kaori Takano1 1 School of Business Administration‚ Fort Lewis College‚ USA Correspondence: Kaori Takano‚ School of Business Administration‚ Fort Lewis College‚ Durango‚ CO 81301‚ USA. Tel: 1-970-247-7060. E-mail: kaoringcun@yahoo.com Received: February 19‚ 2013 Accepted: March 18‚ 2013 Online Published: April 14‚ 2013 doi:10.5539/ijbm.v8n9p111 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v8n9p111 Abstract This study examines how
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The Incontestable Japanese Leadership How did Japanese firms come to dominate the facsimile industry The Incontestable Japanese Leadership In capturing the top by the bo1om • Facsimile is a major mean of communica=on in Japan‚ that created incen=ves to innova=ons • Japanese firms invested aggressively
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT 1.0 Synopsis of Case Study Amazon provides an array of products and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. As an online retailer and third-party‚ Amazon‟s products range from books and music to furniture and clothing. This e-business operates under several business models‚ all of which are designed to capture and retain customers while keeping up with evolving technological customer demands. Amazon‟s online retail services allow businesses to sell their
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Brandy Hopkins January 25‚ 2006 Case Study of Amazon.com Individual Marcus Myers Seminar in Business ADM495; BSM259 History The launch of Amazon.com in July of 1995 was the creation of a new and bold way of doing business on the Internet. Amazon.com forced the traditional physical world brick and mortar retailer in the book industry to change the way they target the industry ’s consumers and then epitomized Business-2-Consumer e-retailing. Although‚ Amazon.com started as an online bookstore
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AMAZON REKINDLES ITS FLAIR FOR TECHNOLOGY Summary of Case Amazon.com‚ headquartered in Seattle‚ Washington‚ the world ’s largest online retailer and also one of the nation ’s biggest book sellers. It was founded in 1994 by Jeffrey P. Bezos‚ a former financial analyst for the New York hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Company. In the beginning‚ the company began as an online bookseller in 1995. The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is the largest rivers in the world. The Company operates
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Case study : Amazon 1. What is the business model for Amazon.com? How does their business model differ from that of Barnes and Noble or Borders? How would you value Amazon.com? Amazon is a relatively small player in the bookstore industry‚ and its main competitors are Barnes & Noble and Borders. Despite the difference in scale‚ the company shows great promise‚ because its business model overcomes many of the competitors’ drawbacks. Amazon operates using a web-based platform to sell
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