It is in the 2000s that many inconsistencies and institutional fatigue, as well as the demand for reform, were pointed out with respect to the existing systems of the publishing and book distribution industries. How did the studies on publishing and book distribution in the period cope with the above-mentioned problems of the industries, which have much in common with those in the current era? This article will clarify the achievement of such studies in the 2000s, by rearrangement of the research results published in the period in an context of the actual public industry, including digitalization, online bookstores, the consignment system, the resale price maintenance and the history of book distribution.

The purpose of this article is to review the trend of a publication legal system and ethics in publishing studies in the 2000s. The range of this review is articles placed in Studies on Publishing and related studies. In the field of the legal system, it focused not only on the freedom of expression but also on copyright. In the ethic study, an original base and frame was shown.

It entered in the 2000s and is rash in the speed of computerization increasingly. Although many information is touched in everyday life, it is difficult to take out required information correctly exactly. Information literacy technology is needed. Especially a librarian’s information literacy capability is indispensable technology at a library. Also in publication, many information technologies, such as an Electronic Library and a digital book, are surrounding the library. In recent years, there is also much subject of electronic publishing. In this paper, the consideration about the library science published from 2000 to 2009 is tried as “library science of the’00s.”

A fashion magazine titled, “Wakai Jyosei (Young Ladies)” published between 1955 and 1982 targeted young single women in Japan. What does this magazine tell us about social history of women and work in the media in Japan? The readers for the magazine were business girls (BG) who were subsequently called office ladies (OL). Gradually, it developed as a type of OL’s life-style magazines in Japan.

The purpose of this study is to examine the assumption on the imperial family coverage in the weekly magazine. It is assumed that male magazines criticize the imperial family behaviors going beyond traditional modus operandi, while female magazines see these behaviors as ones in a domestic drama. The result of the content analysis for the weekly magazines (6 male, 3 female) was obscured by the credibility of the assumption.

The first issue of economic magazine “Diamond” was published on May 10, 1913. Diamond Inc. celebrated the issue’s 100th anniversary by reprinting it in an electronic version. Computerization allows us to read an old magazine easily, and this is commendable in the history of publication.