Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!pit-transit.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jim Breen Reply-To: jimbreen@gmail.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan Subject: Re: Foreign book wholesaler Yohan bankrupt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:49:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.161.8.235 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1218235747 58.161.8.235 (Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:49:07 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:49:07 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167433 Prophet of the Way wrote: > Yohan Inc., the leading foreign book and magazine wholesales merchant of > Japan declared bankruptcy on July 31th 2008. [...] > Yohan was the prominent provider of foreign books and magazines in > Japan. Many bookstores, small and large, were totally dependent on > Yohan, from title selection to shelf management. For books, it seems > bookstores can find other agents, but for magazines, it will take time > for a new channel to get set up. [...] > Debito writes of his experience with bookstores: > http://www.debito.org/?p=1856 As Debito's blog makes clear, it's not altogether a bad thing, and has a fair amount of "getting just desserts" attached to it. Practices like Yohan's are illegal in Australia. A pity Japan doesn't have real trade-practices/restraint of trade laws. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学