Buying Japanese Novels in US

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Reply #26 - 2009 June 05, 6:24 pm
lerris Member
From: Orlando Registered: 2006-06-17 Posts: 44 Website

BooBooQ88 wrote:

One place I have found that may be of use is www.sasugabooks.com. Haven't ordered anything yet cuz I'm still working on rtk1 so I can't say much about them.

But it may be worth looking into.... Seems like they have a good selection of stuff.

I ordered a couple volumes of manga and the first Harry Potter book from them back in December. One of the volumes was unfortunately out of print or something and resulted in a delayed order while they attempted to get a copy (unfortunately they won't split an order into multiple shipments if this happens).. it didn't work out, but they refunded the cost of the volume and sent my order after a few days. It arrived pretty quickly after that and I'd certainly recommend them and will likely use them again.

I don't even remember offhand what volume it was that caused the delay - I just know it was something old that came up in a "You might like this..." list and I thought I'd give it a try. Oh well.

Reply #27 - 2009 June 05, 7:13 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

Another good source to buy books from is... me big_smile harhar

I always sell off my books after I'm done with them since I hate clutter. All I have up for sale right now is the 国語 textbook from a Japanese elementary school (gr1), 日本語初歩、日本語中級Ｉ、はれときどきぶた, and a pair of J-E and E-J dictionaries though..

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2009 June 05, 7:14 pm)

Reply #28 - 2009 June 05, 8:56 pm
brianobush Member
From: Portland Registered: 2008-06-28 Posts: 241 Website

Powell's here in Portland, Oregon has a boat load of manga and a large section of Japanese books - both new and used/out of print works. Don't know how well they are represented in their online store though.
  http://powells.com/

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Reply #29 - 2009 June 06, 10:10 am
KREVA Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-09-12 Posts: 302

nac_est wrote:

KREVA wrote:

Tobberoth wrote:

www.bk1.jp let's you import stuff quite cheap.

Does bk1.jp offer free shipping for a lightweight order?  I just recently ordered from them for the first time and purchased 5 manga books.  Shipping by SAL was free, but was that because it was my first order or what?   I was expecting to pay some shipping, but they arrived at my doorstep a few days ago.  I received 5 manga books for about 1,950円 total.  (That was so much better than buying 2 of those same books from Kinokuniya, which were both around 5 dollars plus 7 dollars shipping (18 something total.)

Usually they don't write the shipping cost in the confirmation email, because it's determined by the weight of the items. Have you compared the amount written in the mail and the actual sum that was charged to you?
Then again, shipping to the US may be different from that to Europe.

The receipt that came with my order has s&h down as 0.  The total is 1950円 (which is exactly the price of the 5 390円 manga books that I purchased.  It says this on all the confirmation emails as well as the info stored in my purchase history on the site.

Last edited by KREVA (2009 June 06, 10:10 am)

Reply #30 - 2009 June 06, 11:01 am
nac_est Member
From: Italy Registered: 2006-12-12 Posts: 617 Website

KREVA wrote:

The receipt that came with my order has s&h down as 0.  The total is 1950円 (which is exactly the price of the 5 390円 manga books that I purchased.  It says this on all the confirmation emails as well as the info stored in my purchase history on the site.

Now I'm envious!

Reply #31 - 2010 March 10, 10:38 pm
gyuujuice Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-09-24 Posts: 828

Wow, thanks everyone for the comments!
彼女欲しいですが、日本に行ったことがありません！残念ですね。

Reply #32 - 2010 March 11, 2:45 am
pm215 Member
From: UK Registered: 2008-01-26 Posts: 1354

KREVA wrote:

The receipt that came with my order has s&h down as 0.  The total is 1950円 (which is exactly the price of the 5 390円 manga books that I purchased.  It says this on all the confirmation emails as well as the info stored in my purchase history on the site.

I'm pretty sure you'll find you have been charged for it (usually they pencil the amount on the label on the outside of the box). The receipt with the order doesn't give the shipping cost (because it's packed inside the box before they weigh it). The order history for my orders says "送料 ：      実費請求": they don't record the figure. Check your credit card statement or equivalent which ought to say how much you were charged in total (eg my last order was 7159 yen worth of books and the charge to the card was 8779 yen including shipping).