日本《朝日新闻》报道,近5年来,日本网络书店竞争激烈,发展迅猛。据日本全国出版协会统计,网络书店的销售额从2000年的约70亿日元猛增到2005年的500多亿日元,增加了6倍。又据东京商工研究所调查,日本书店零售市场规模,近5年来一直保持在22000亿至23000亿日元的水平,网络书店的 Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported that in the past five years Japan’s online bookstore has been fiercely competitive and developing rapidly. According to Japan’s National Press Association, sales of online bookstores jumped from about 7 billion yen in 2000 to more than 500 billion yen in 2005, a sixfold increase. According to the Tokyo Institute of Commerce and Industry Survey, the Japanese bookstore retail market size, the past five years has been maintained at 2.2 trillion to 2.3 trillion yen level, the Internet bookstore’s