Circulating magazine business - Kairan Zasshigyo

Japanese: 回覧雑誌業 - かいらんざっしぎょう
Circulating magazine business - Kairan Zasshigyo

...Some of them, such as the Matsuno Book Club in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, have been enthusiastic about modernizing the rental book business and have achieved unique results. The magazine circulation business is a successor to the peddler-delivery style of rental books that has existed since the Edo period. New magazines are regularly distributed to each household for a monthly fee, and they have followed the same path as rental bookshops since the end of the Taisho period and still exist today in various places.

*Some of the terminology used in the "circulating magazine industry" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのなかで山口県徳山のマツノ読書会など貸本経営の近代化を意欲的にめざし,ユニークな業績を残したものもある。なお,江戸期以来の行商宅配型の貸本を踏襲したものに回覧雑誌業がある。新刊雑誌を月ぎめ料金で定期的に各家庭に配本交換するもので,大正末ころから貸本屋の盛衰とほぼ同じ軌跡をたどって現在も各地にある。…

※「回覧雑誌業」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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