Superb idea! I want to open a bookstore filled with my recommendations!
“The Mainichi Daily News profiled a bookstore that “does more than sell books—it makes very personal recommendations based on customers’ moods and interests.” Dokusho no susume (Reading recommendation) ”has no bestsellers or even any new releases. What the bookshop offers, unlike many major stores, are volumes that the owner, Katsuyoshi Shimizu, 50, personally recommends.”
Shimizu founded the bookshop in 1995 because he “was angry that many good-selling books are not distributed to small bookstores. That is why I started gathering my own recommended reads…. I read books as I think about many problems in our society, such as earthquakes and uneasiness with the government. If I can recommend a book, I stock it (at the shop).” The Mainichi Daily News noted that Shimizu has recommended books to more than one million people and is often called “a sommelier (wine steward) of books.”
(via Shelf Awareness for Thursday, January 5, 2012 | Shelf Awareness)
