Hi you all, today I was in a Book Off in Paris where they sold Japanese novels. They had sorted the books on the author’s last name which made sense, but at the end of the sorted names, the books were sorted by publisher such as KADOKAWA. I’m still very new to reading Japanese books, so does anyone have an idea why someone would care about the publisher that published the book?
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> does anyone have an idea why someone would care about the publisher that published the book?
As an reader, because that’s how the books are sorted in the store and I need to know that information to find the book by myself in a timely manner.
It’s probably done out of either tradition, or publisher desires to have their catalogue all be together.
That’s just how they’re sorted in Japan.
I was told that publishers in Japan tend to produce a lot of the same style and genre. So a particular reader might want to find “some books by publisher X”. No idea how true that is. And, obviously, they’re going to produce a lot of books including some that are different. So it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me personally.
But that’s how they do it!