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.
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.
Japanese bookworms got angry with this news and wonder if it violates competition law.
