JP2684546B2 - Optical disc duplicator and book publishing and sales system using optical disc duplicator - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an optical disc duplicating apparatus for duplicating an optical disc and a book publishing and selling system using the optical disc duplicating apparatus.

[Prior Art] In recent years, the number of newly issued books has been increasing,
Due to the sales floor area, it has become difficult to collect new books that were the main products at retail stores. Moreover, it is completely impossible to display all published books, except for some large bookstores. Therefore, retailers immediately return books that do not sell even if a large number of books are displayed, and preferentially display only the best-selling books that are likely to sell. For books that are not on display,
I try to order it from the reader.

As described above, in the current system, it is inevitable that the number of returned books increases, and this returned goods causes the price increase of books. Moreover, from the reader's point of view, there is a problem that only the magazines and the best sellers are displayed in the retail store, and it is impossible to pick up the necessary books. Further, even if a book is ordered, it takes a long time to obtain it, which is extremely inconvenient for the reader.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In order to solve such a problem of the present system, a so-called CD-ROM or Laser Disk in which the contents of a book are recorded as electronic information instead of printing the book on paper is used. Electronic publishing has been proposed. However, it is necessary to make a certain number or more of these electronic publications, and in view of the risk of being unsold, they can only be applied to books that can be sold, and they are expensive.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and it is an epoch-making product that can immediately meet reader's orders for a large number of books at the retail point, has little risk of returned goods, and is suitable for a small number of books. An object of the present invention is to provide a simple book publishing and selling system and an optical disk duplicating apparatus suitable for the book publishing and selling system.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object is to provide a reading unit for reading the contents of an original optical disc on which the contents of a book to be reproduced are written, a memory for storing the contents read by the reading unit, and A writing unit that writes the contents stored in the memory to the duplicate optical disc, and a content that sequentially reads the contents of the original optical disc and stores them in the storage unit, and writes the contents stored in the storage unit to the corresponding position of the duplicate optical disc. This is achieved by an optical disk duplicating device characterized by comprising a synchronizing unit for synchronizing the reading unit and the writing unit.

Further, the above-mentioned object is to publish an original optical disc in which the contents of a book to be published are written as a book, and the published original optical disc is duplicated as a duplicate optical disc by the above-mentioned optical disc duplication device provided in a retail store. The present invention is achieved by a book publishing and selling system which sells to a reader, and the reader reproduces the duplicate optical disk by an optical disk reproducing device to read the contents of the book.

[Operation] In the book publication / selling system according to the present invention, a book is published as an optical disc, and the duplicated optical disc is sold by duplicating it by an optical disc duplicating device provided in a retail store.
The reader reads the content of the book by reproducing this duplicate optical disk with the optical disk reproducing device.

[Embodiment] A book publishing sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention is first described.
This will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of the book publishing and selling system of this embodiment.

In the book publication and sales system of the present embodiment, the book is not issued in the form of a book printed on paper, but is issued in the form of an optical disc recording the contents of the book. In this book publication and sales system, a publisher 10 that publishes books, a disc book shop 20 that is a retail store that sells optical discs as books, and a disc book center 30 that produces original optical discs in which the contents of the books are recorded , Memory Center 35, which will be the contact point for this Disc Book Center 30
Is provided.

When the publisher 10 creates a manuscript BK of a book to be published, the manuscript BK is sent to the memory center 35. When the manuscript BK is received, the memory center 35 gives the manuscript BK to the disc book center 30 and orders to manufacture the original optical disc.

The disk book center 30 which has received the order visualizes the content of the document BK and temporarily records it on the magnetic tape MT, and manufactures an original optical disk using this magnetic tape MT, as in the usual method of manufacturing a laser disk. . The original optical discs to be manufactured include optical recording discs (write-once optical discs, phase change optical discs, magneto-optical discs) OD1 and read-only optical discs (Read only Optical discs).
Disk) OD2 is also acceptable. Among the optical recording disks, rewritable magneto-optical disks (Magneto-Optical Disk)
k) is desirable.

The original optical disks OD1 and OD2 manufactured by the disk book center 30 are sent to the publisher 10 via the memory center 35. Publisher 10 is the original optical disc
Distribute OD1 and OD2 to the disc book shop 20 directly or through an agency. Alternatively, the memory center 35 may serve as an agent, and the original optical disks OD1 and OD2 manufactured by the disk book center 30 may be wholesaled to the disk book shop 20.

The disc book shop 20 stores only one original optical disc OD1 or OD2 of each book and prepares a large number of blank optical discs OD3 for copying in which nothing is recorded to prepare for an order from a reader. The optical disk OD3 for copying is preferably an optical recording disk, particularly a rewritable magneto-optical disk.

Original optical discs at disc book shop 20
An optical disc duplication device 50 for duplicating OD1 or OD2 is provided. When selling a book to a reader, the disc book shop 20 uses the optical disc duplication device 50 to copy the contents of the original optical disc OD1 or OD2 of the book to a blank optical disc OD3 and sell the duplicate optical disc O.
Make D4. The disc book shop 20 pays the publisher 10 a duplication fee according to the number of times the original optical disc OD1 or OD2 is duplicated by the optical disc duplication device 50. Payments should be made online for each copy.

The reader purchases this duplicate optical disk OD4 and reads it by playing it on the read-only optical disk 40 at home. Play-only optical disc 40 is a disc book shop 20
May be lent to the reader at a very low price or free. Details of the read-only optical disc 40 are described in the specification and drawings of Japanese Patent Application No. 169525 of 1988 by the present applicant.

It should be noted that, by using a magneto-optical disc as the duplicate optical disc OD4, the duplicate optical disc OD that the reader has finished reading
If 4 is brought to the disc book shop 20, the duplicate optical disc OD4 may be reused to write the contents of another book.

Further, a display device 80 for displaying a book list is provided at the store of the disc book shop 20 so as to display a list of the original optical discs OD1 or OD2 stored in the disc book shop 20.

As described above, in the book publishing sales system of the present embodiment, the disc book shop 20 has the original optical disc OD1.
Alternatively, since the OD2 only needs to be stored, the space is small, and an extremely large number of books can be stocked as compared with the conventional books. However, for books that can be expected to be sold in very small numbers, such as books in special fields, the original optical disk OD1 or OD2 must be installed in all disk bookshops.
Storing in a Disc Book Shop 20
Neither is it desirable for the publisher 10 who provides the original optical disc OD1 or OD2. Therefore, for such books, the original optical disks OD1 and OD2 are stored in the memory center 35, and the contents are sent via the communication line in response to the order from the disk book shop 20.

That is, as shown in FIG. 1, when the disc book shop 20 requests the data transmission of the contents of the book from the memory center 35, the memory center 35 transmits the data online to the disc book shop 20, The shop 20 writes the transmitted data on a blank optical disc OD3 to create a duplicate optical disc OD4. Each disc book shop 20 may directly pay the duplication fee to the publisher 10, or the duplication fee from each disc book shop 20 may be paid by the memory center 35.
You may pay online at once.

Next, the details of the optical disc duplication device 50 provided in the disc book shop 20 will be described with reference to FIG.
The optical disk duplicating device 50 must finish copying in an extremely short time while the reader waits for the purchase of a book. Therefore, the optical disk duplicating apparatus 50 of the present embodiment is characterized in that two optical heads are provided for reading and two for writing.

An original optical disc 52, which is an original such as the original optical discs OD1 and OD2, is driven by a motor 53, and two optical heads 54A and 54B for reading are provided on the original optical disc 52. One optical head 54A reads the contents from the innermost track to the center track of the original optical disc 52, and the other optical head 54B reads the contents from the center track of the original optical disc 52 to the outermost track. A head drive unit 56A for driving the optical head 54A sequentially moves the optical head 54A located at the innermost circumference toward the outside each time the content of the track is read at the start of the duplication. Further, the head drive unit 56B for driving the optical head 54B sequentially moves the optical head 54B located at the center toward the outside each time the contents of the track are read, at the start of the duplication.

The optical heads 54A and 54B are provided with reading units 58A and 58B, respectively, which perform predetermined processing such as converting the contents read by the optical heads 54A and 54B into digital information, and store the contents in the memories 60Aa, 60Ab, and 60Ba. , 60Bb. That is, the reading unit 58A stores the content read by the optical head 54A in the memory.
Alternately stored in 60Aa or 60Ab. Similarly, the reading unit 58B stores the contents read by the optical head 54B in the memory 60Ba or 6
Store in 0Bb alternately.

The copy optical disk 62, which is copied like a blank optical disk OD3, is driven by a motor 63,
Along with two optical heads 64A and 64B for writing, coils 65A and 65B for applying a writing magnetic field are provided. One optical head 64A writes the contents of the book in the track between the innermost track and the center track of the copy optical disk 62, and the other optical head 64B writes the contents of the book between the center track and the outermost track of the copy optical disk 62. The contents of the book are written on the track. A head drive unit 66A for driving the optical head 64A sequentially moves the optical head 64A located at the innermost circumference toward the outside each time the contents are written in the track when the duplication is started. Further, the head driving unit 66B for driving the optical head 64B moves the optical head 64B located at the center at the start of the duplication in order every time the contents are written in the track.

The optical heads 64A and 64B are provided with writing units 68A and 68B, respectively. The writing units 68A and 68B are memories 60Aa, 60Ab, and 60A.
Optical head for the contents of the book to be written stored in Ba, 60Bb
Perform predetermined processing to enable writing with 64A and 64B. That is, the writing unit 68A is the memory 60Aa or 60A.
The contents of the book stored in b are copied by the optical head 64A and written on the optical disc 62. Similarly, the writing unit 68B copies the content of the book stored in the memory 60Ba or 60Bb by the optical head 64B and writes it on the optical disc 62.

In the optical disk duplication device 50 of the present embodiment, the optical heads 54A and 64A moving from the innermost track to the center track and the optical head 54 moving from the center track to the outermost track.
Two memories 60Aa and 60Ab each for B and 64B
Alternatively, 60Ba and 60Bb are provided. This is because while the information is read from the original optical disc 52 by the optical head 54A and stored in one of the memories 60Aa and 60Ab, the memory 60Aa,
This is because the content stored in the other side of 60Ab is copied and written on the optical disc 62 by the optical head 64A. Similarly, while the information is read by the optical head 54B and stored in one of the memories 60Ba, 60Bb, the contents stored in the other of the memories 60Ba, 60Bb are copied and written on the optical disk 62 by the optical head 64B. . Read unit by drive synchronization unit 70A, 70B
The above-described operation is realized by controlling 58A and 58B and writing units 68A and 68B. Further, the drive synchronization units 70A, 70B have head drive units 56A, 56B, 66 so that the data of each track of the original optical disc 52 is copied and written in the same track of the optical disc 62.
Control A and 66B.

As described above, in the optical disc duplicating apparatus of this embodiment, two optical heads are provided for reading and two writing heads, and two memories for storing data are provided for each head.
The contents of the original optical disc can be copied and written to the optical disc in an extremely short time to duplicate the optical disc.

In addition, when copying the contents of the book sent from the memory center 35 and writing it on the optical disk 62,
The data from 35 is received by a data receiving unit (not shown) and alternately stored in the memories 60Aa, 60Ab, 60Ba, 60Bb,
Sequentially copy and write on the optical disk 62. A high-speed, large-capacity storage device such as a magnetic disk device may be provided on the side of the disk book shop 20 to temporarily receive the data from the memory center 35 and then write the data on the copy disk. Data of memory 60Aa, 60A
The data may be sequentially stored in b, 60Ba, and 60Bb, and the data may be received each time writing is performed on the copy optical disc.

Next, the display of the book list by the display device 80 provided at the store of the disc book shop 20 will be described with reference to FIG.

The display device 80 of the present embodiment displays inventory book information, center inventory book information, and newly published book information. The stock book information is book information of the original optical disks OD1 or OD2 stocked in the disk book shop 20, and the center stock book information is book information of the original optical disks OD1 or OD2 stocked by the memory center 35, The newly published book information is information on a book that has just been published or a book that will be published soon.

The display device 80 is connected to the optical disc duplication device 50. The control unit 82 for controlling the entire apparatus includes a memory 84 for storing book information, a display panel 86 for displaying the book information, a communication unit 88 for online input of data from an external memory center 35, erasing of displayed data, A keyboard 90 for updating is connected. The memory 84 is provided with areas 84a, 84b, 84c for respectively storing inventory book information, center inventory book information, and newly published book information.

The stock book information is input from the optical disk duplication device 50. That is, publisher 10 to disc book shop 20
The original optical disc OD1 or OD2 received in is also put on the optical disc duplication device 50 once for the arrival test. The optical disc duplication device 50 is an original optical disc OD.
The book information (book title, author name, publisher name, etc.) is read from 1 or OD2, and the information is output to the display device 80. Display device 80
Stores the stock book information in the stock book information area 84a of the memory 84 by the control unit 82.

Information on books in the center is sent online from the memory center 35. The sent center inventory book information is received by the communication unit 88 and stored in the memory via the control unit 82.
It is stored in the center inventory book information area 84b of 84.

The newly published book information is sent from the memory center 35 as well as the book information in the center. For example, new publication information is input from the memory center 35 every day or every week and stored in the new publication information area 84c of the memory 84.

The keyboard 90 activates the above-mentioned operation and erases inventory book information. In other words, when returning the stocked original optical disk OD1 or OD2 to the publisher 10 or the memory center 35, the memory 84 is used by the keyboard 90.
Delete the relevant information from.

As described above, according to the book publication / selling system of the present embodiment, it is possible to immediately respond to the reader's orders for a large number of books at the retail store, and the risk of returned goods is small,
Moreover, it is possible to deal with the publication of a small number of books.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications are possible. For example, although two optical heads are provided for high speed duplication by the optical disc duplication device in the above embodiment, in addition to using a plurality of optical heads, the number of revolutions of the optical disc, the data transfer speed, the memory The capacity may be increased.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to immediately meet the reader's orders for a large number of books at a retail store, reduce the risk of returned goods, and also be a breakthrough suitable for a small number of books. It is possible to realize such a book publishing and selling system and to provide an optical disk duplicating apparatus suitable for the book publishing and selling system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a book publishing and selling system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an optical disk duplicating apparatus used in the book publishing and selling system, and FIG. 3 is used in the book publishing and selling system. It is a block diagram of a display device. 10 …… Publisher, 20 …… Disc Book Shop, 30 ……
Disc book center, 35 ... Memory center, 40 ...
Playback-only optical disc, 50 Optical disc duplicator, 52
...... Original optical disc, 53, 63 …… Motor, 54A, 54B, 64
A, 64B ... Optical head, 56A, 56B, 66A, 66B ... Head drive section, 58A, 58B ... Read section, 60Aa, 60Ab, 60Ba, 60Bb ...
... Memory, 62 ... Copy optical disk, 65A, 65B ... Coil, 68A, 68B ... Writing section, 70A, 70B ... Drive synchronization section, 80
...... Display device, 82 …… Control unit, 84 …… Memory, 86 …… Display panel, 88 …… Communication unit, 90 …… Keyboard, BK …… Original, OD1 …… Optical recording disk, OD2 …… Playback Dedicated optical disc, OD3 ... Blank optical disc, OD4 ... Duplicate optical disc

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A reading unit for reading the contents of an original optical disc on which the contents of a book to be reproduced are written, a memory for storing the contents read by the reading unit, and a copy of the contents stored in this memory. A writing unit for writing on the optical disc; and a reading unit for reading the contents of the original optical disc sequentially and storing the contents in the storage unit and writing the contents stored in the storage unit at a corresponding position of the duplicate optical disc. An optical disc duplicating apparatus comprising: a synchronizing unit that synchronizes with the writing unit, to duplicate the original optical disc. 2. An original optical disc on which the content of a book to be published is written as a book, and the optical disc duplicating apparatus according to claim 1 provided in a retail store duplicates and duplicates the published original optical disc. A book publishing and sales system using an optical disk duplicating apparatus, which is sold as an optical disk to a reader, and the reader reads the content of the book by reproducing the copied optical disk by an optical disk reproducing apparatus.