Printing, publishing firms to buy 32% stake in used book seller Bookoff
and two of its units will join three major publishing firms in acquiring a total of some 32 percent of voting shares in used-book seller Bookoff Corp.
The printing and publishing companies are expected to take advantage of the more than 1,000 Bookoff stores throughout Japan to overcome the current publishing industry slump.
TOKYO - Secondhand book chain operator Bookoff Corp.
Bookoff said that through an in-house investigation in the wake of a magazine report on the company's illicit trading it found that some of its shops sold products to a third party and then Bookoff's distribution subsidiary bought them back in order to make their sales look larger than they actually were.
The group, headed by Takashi Sakamoto, president of used book chain
Bookoff Corp., submitted to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshinobu Shimamura some of the signatures it collected from some 1.19 million people calling for the resumption of U.S.