...As the railways expanded, the father and son Smith, WH Smith & Son, came up with the idea of railway bookstalls at each station and almost monopolized them, but the son used this network to come up with a book rental chain store. In 1900, a man named J. Boots added book rentals to his chemist shops around the country. The combined branches of Smith and Boots formed a book rental chain store with over 1,000 branches. ... *Some of the terminology that mentions "Boots, J." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…延びる鉄路とともに,各駅ごとに今日の駅構内売店railway bookstallsを考え,ほぼそれを独占したのはスミス親子W.H.Smith & Sonであるが,息子の方は,このネットワークを活用して貸本業のチェーン・ストアを考案した。またブーツJ.Bootsという男は,1900年に自己所有の各地の薬剤店chemist shopsに貸本文庫をつけ加える。このスミスとブーツ両人の支店を併せると優に1000店の貸本文庫チェーン・ストアになったという。… ※「Boots,J.」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。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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