Hsu says that Kinokuniya's managers see the store as a "transmitter station" of Japanese culture and information. All of the Japanese main branches and the foreign branches can use the Internet to access current sales figures from all the stores. This also allows them to pinpoint readers 'needs and order popular English and Japanese books accordingly.
許絢音指出，以「日本文化情報發信基地」為出發點的紀伊國屋企業系統裡，所有日本本店及海外各分店皆可利用網路來查詢，對於各分店裡最新的銷售狀況一目了然，也精確且直接地瞭解讀者需求，以此引進英、日文的流行書籍。