"Back in the early days," recalls Lee, "Eslite found itself stuck with huge numbers of foreign-language books in stock. Over time, we refined our business model and learned what we needed to order. We became selective and stopped having to dump books to clear our inventory."
「早期誠品對於原文書所下的量也是非常多，後來慢慢摸索出自己的經營模式，知道讀者需要什麼，再經過挑選，而不是很辛苦地去扛那個庫存量。