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Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店, Kinokuniya Shoten) is a Japanese bookstore chain operated by Kinokuniya Company Ltd. (株式会社紀伊國屋書店, Kabushiki-gaisha Kinokuniya Shoten), founded in 1927, with its first store located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Its name translates to "Bookstore of Kii Province".
Osamu Matsubara (松原 治, Matsubara Osamu, October 7, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, business executive, and former chairman and CEO of Books Kinokuniya. [1] Matsubara was President of Kinokuniya Company Ltd., the parent company of Books Kinokuniya, from October 1980 to November 2002. [2]
This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English , they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines.
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January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo.; February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the Académie des femmes, [1] an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris salon.
Yu & Me Books is an independent bookstore in Chinatown, Manhattan. The only bookstore in New York City owned by an Asian American woman, the bookstore sells books relevant to the Asian American diaspora and has hosted events with authors like Ocean Vuong , Sayaka Murata , and Hua Hsu .
The bookstore had 70,000 books in its early years, which increased by the mid-1960s to 500,000. By the 1990s it had 2.5 million books, which necessitated the renting of a warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. At that time, the oldest book for sale in the Strand was an edition of Magna Moralia, which was priced at $4,500.
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