Chapter 301

Tsutaya Bookstore third-floor conference room,

Akiwara Yuto and Asano came to the president's office to see Nishijima Sōta.

After seeing Akiwara Yuto, Nishijima Sōta showed a complex expression.

He only knew about Akiwara Yuto's movie filming plan later.

But for this matter, he once thought the other party was not doing his proper job.

He thought Akiwara Yuto was completely a big head, and was fooled by others before he went to invest and film.

But I didn't expect that this movie is so popular now, and even can see relevant comments in the newspaper every day.

How did this guy's brain grow?

He cast aside this thought, invited the two to sit down, and let the secretary come in to pour two cups of tea.

Immediately after, he took out two documents and placed them on the coffee table.

"Teacher Akiwara, Miss Asano, this is the second-hand bookstore opening plan I formulated, please take a look."

Although he said polite words, he was still very confident in his heart.

Because this document was made by him running to more than 10 cities in these two weeks.

It was basically found after investigating the local market situation and finding the location with the highest cost-performance ratio.

On the other side, Akiwara Yuto took the document and began to review it.

He attaches great importance to this plan.

After Tokyo Distribution and Nihon Distribution took a "passive" cooperative attitude, he must find another way to find a channel that can sell books.

And these channels are also divided into the Tokyo metropolitan area and the distribution market outside the Tokyo area.

The Tokyo metropolitan area is undoubtedly the most important; although its population only accounts for one-fourth of the total population of Nihon, its per capita GDP and consumption ability are the highest.

So out of the 3 million books sold by the publisher last year, 1.6 million were sold here.

And outside the Tokyo metropolitan area, besides the two main markets of Osaka and Kyoto, there are many counties.

While Akiwara Yuto and Asano Aiko were looking at the documents, Nishijima Sōta also explained at the same time.

"According to Teacher Akiwara's requirements, the current sales method is still mainly telephone and envelope ordering, so I plan to set up a special office inside the publisher to receive calls from various places.

To facilitate the logistics and transportation of the publisher's books, currently preparing to open a circulation point for the distribution network in each of the 47 first-level administrative regions, each containing a larger warehouse.

Because bookstore sales are not the main purpose, I suggest reducing the bookstore scale and increasing the warehouse capacity to achieve the purpose of saving funds."

After hearing these words, Akiwara Yuto raised his head and looked at him.

"President Nishijima, don't you look favorably on the future of the second-hand book market?"

Nishijima Sōta replied: "It's not like that, it's just that the account funds are not enough."

"How much is left now."

"It's only about 150 million."

Akiwara Yuto asked: "Then is the cost of existing store opening enough?"

After all, opening a store, besides rent, also involves labor costs and early decoration costs.

Nishijima Sōta said embarrassedly: "I personally suggest mortgaging part of Tsutaya Bookstore's assets to the bank to obtain part of the fund circulation."

Akiwara Yuto laughed dumbly; Tsutaya Bookstore is now the most valuable, which is the distribution copyright of this batch of books.

But if the copyright is mortgaged to the bank again, maybe Jingfan Society will make some trouble again.

So he also heard the meaning in Nishijima Sōta's words, which is hoping that he can further inject capital to realize this plan.

Asano Aiko naturally also heard this meaning, so she looked at Akiwara Yuto with inquiring eyes.

Akiwara Yuto thought about it and asked again: "President Nishijima, then regarding the person in charge of this chain bookstore business, who do you think is more suitable?"

Opening a bookstore sounds simple, but every industry has some tricks.

But the people around Akiwara Yuto are basically from the publishing industry and lack cognition of the specific business methods of bookstores.

If you don't find a special person to do this, the final outcome is likely to be a waste of effort.

Nishijima Sōta hesitated and said: "Sorry, I have no suitable candidates to recommend."

He actually lied; after all, having been in the publishing industry for so many years, he naturally knows many suitable bookstore operators.

But the people he recommends are likely to be considered his own faction.

Now, all the publisher's business is his responsibility; if he stretches his hand to the distribution channel again, maybe it will cause Akiwara Yuto's opposition.

He doesn't want to follow Anjiu Jin Gangyi's old path.

Akiwara Yuto is naturally not stupid and heard the meaning in his words.

However, he didn't intend to break it; after all, in his view, the bookstore industry is now in a cold winter, and every day there are bookstores going bankrupt and laying off people.

Finding a few suitable candidates, it may not be very difficult.

"Let's stop here," Akiwara Yuto waved his hand and left the publisher.

He prepared to ask acquaintances in these two days to see if there are any suitable personnel recommendations.

8 pm, Adachi Ward, Tokyo, Saliang Izakaya.

As a bookstore clerk, Sugihara Aisa wore a skirt and came to the second floor of this Izakaya.

On the second floor, a group of men and women were already sitting and chatting. One of the women waved after seeing Sugihara Aisa: "Aisa-chan, here here!"

Sugihara Aisa let out a sigh of relief, hurried over to sit down, and took off her coat.

"Come come come, have a drink!" A square-faced man in his 30s opposite smiled and poured wine into the glass in front of Sugihara, while Sugihara Aisa immediately smiled and said "Thank you."

Soon, dishes and other cuisines were also served by the waiter one by one, and everyone drank and chatted.

Looking at this lively scene in front of her, Sugihara Aisa sighed in her heart.

"There are many fewer old faces this year!"

In Nihon, there has always been a tradition of industry networking, the main purpose is to get to know people, and the secondary purpose is for matchmaking.

As a leftover bookstore clerk, Sugihara Aisa naturally participates in several industry networking events organized by the bookstore industry every year.

But what makes her a bit uncomfortable is that the familiar people are getting fewer and fewer.

She thought about it and asked her friend: "Why didn't Meili-chan come?"

"She was laid off by the bookstore, so she went home to continue the hotel."

"What about Jiucheng-kun?"

"He hasn't received his salary for three months, don't know where he went."

"Then..."

"Don't ask, drink well!"

Her friend grabbed Sugihara Aisa's shoulder and let her drink together.

But Sugihara Aisa always felt that her friend was just deliberately "anesthetizing herself" to force herself to forget these things.

Looking at the lively situation on the field, she didn't know why, but felt a sadness in her heart.

If only she had the ability to help everyone, how good would that be!

But what she didn't know was that this opportunity would come soon!