Bringing his eye for efficiency into the bookstore business, he asked the advice of experts to help in the final design. Laid out like a department store, the brightly lit, spacious and convenient store earned back its initial investment costs in its first year.
金石堂經常供應的書在五萬種以上，且可代購店內沒有的書；室內佈置則請專家設計，走道採大型百貨公司標準，較傳統書店寬敞許多；所有刊物均分類擺置書櫃上，書櫃約與常人同高，消費者能輕鬆地自由取閱。金石堂也是第一家以電腦協助處理業務的書店。