Recently, my favorite comics are "Shogi Meshi(Dishes for Shogi Masters)".

From this comic, I have begun to use Fire7 as an ebook reader in earnest.

I think that e-books are not as good as paper books (in my opinion), but the benefits to carry a large amount of comics with a single tablet are great.

But what I can't understand is the price of the e-book.

I'm not sure why costs of paper books and e-book books are the same (or a little cheaper than paper books).

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So, I looked into it a little, but it seems that it can be about 1/3 of the price, considering production costs, distribution, and labor costs.

I examined the opinions of experts about the reason, but there are many strange theories.

(1)Because the bookstore will be crushed

(2) Considering intermediate exploitation such as Amazon, the price will not be cheap

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First of all, I thought that the reason for (1) had already finished when the "Large Stores Act (Large-scale Retail Store Location Act) (*) was abolished".

(*) Established in 1973 and abolished in 2000

I want a "book" and not a "bookstore", even if some people may not.

I want to read the book I want to read that day.

Even when I was an elementary school student, I thought that I got angry with "two weeks to get a book".

First of all, bookstore had a strategy that could be taken (*), such as "direct delivery in a narrow area with a radius of 2 km"(like a book version of pizza delivery), but they did not do it.

(*) Actually, I made such a proposal many times at the cash register at bookstore.

Bookstore industries that didn't take my needs seriously was bad.

(To be continued)