JP5088183B2 - Book sales amount determination device, book sales amount determination program, and book sales amount determination method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a book sales amount determination device, a book sales amount determination program, and a book sales amount determination method, and more particularly to a book sales amount determination device and a book sales amount that are charged when a part of an area such as a page constituting a book is displayed. The present invention relates to a determination program and a book sales amount determination method.

A part or all of a book is displayed, and charging is performed corresponding to the displayed area. Patent Document 1 discloses a system that charges only for a browsed information portion of a book. Patent Document 2 discloses a system that allows a part of a book to be read on a trial basis and then purchased.
JP 2002-24570 A JP 2003-150833 A

  According to the system of Patent Document 1, it is possible to browse a part or all of a book and charge according to the amount of information. However, browsing does not lead to sales of books. According to the system of Patent Literature 2, a user can purchase a book after reading a part of the book. However, if the range where the trial reading is possible is not limited, if the user reads the portion that he / she wants to read, the book will not be sold, and the seller loses a lot. In addition, when the range where the trial reading is possible is limited, there is a possibility that the user cannot test the part that he / she wants to read, and the willingness to purchase is not triggered. Therefore, sales of books are not always connected.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a book sales amount determination device, a book sales amount determination program, and a book sales amount determination method that are easy for a user to purchase and have little loss for the seller. And

The book sales amount determination device includes a price storage unit that stores a price of a book composed of a plurality of areas, a charge amount storage unit that stores a charge amount in association with each of the plurality of areas, and the charge amount storage. A charge amount accumulating means for acquiring a charge amount of an area displayed by a user from among the plurality of areas, accumulating the acquired charge amount and calculating a cumulative charge amount; and purchasing the book from the user A sales amount determination unit that acquires the price of the book from the price storage unit and determines the sales amount of the book based on a difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book when the application is accepted; and the user When the user has applied for the purchase of the book, the user changes the charge amount of the area displayed last before applying for the purchase of the book, and the changed charge amount is stored in the charge amount storage means. The section to remember And forehead change means, a book sales amount determination device having a.
Further, the book sales amount determination device includes a price storage unit that stores a price of a book composed of a plurality of areas, a charge amount storage unit that stores a charge amount in association with each of the plurality of areas, and the section Charge amount accumulating means for acquiring a charge amount of the area displayed by the user from the amount storage means and accumulating the acquired charge amount to calculate a cumulative charge amount; and from the user to the book A purchase price determination unit that acquires the price of the book from the price storage unit, and determines the sales price of the book based on a difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book; When the user does not display any of the plurality of areas of the book for a certain period or longer, the charge amount of the area last displayed by the user is changed, and the changed charge amount is stored in the charge amount storage unit Remember And the billing amount change means for, is a book sales amount determination device having a.

Further, the book sales amount determination program and the book sales amount determination method are configured to sell a book based on a price of a book composed of a plurality of areas and a charge amount that stores a charge amount in association with each of the plurality of areas. In order to determine the price, the computer accumulates the charge amount of the area displayed by the user out of the plurality of areas and calculates the accumulated charge amount, and the user purchase application for the book If accepted, a sales amount determining means for determining the sales amount of the book based on the difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book; and when the user applies for the purchase of the book, the user Changes the billing amount of the last displayed area before applying for purchase of the book, and changes the billing amount to the billing amount stored in association with the last displayed region When a book sales amount determination program and book sales determination method, characterized in that to function as a.
Further, the book sales amount determination program and the book sales amount determination method are configured to sell a book based on a price of a book composed of a plurality of areas and a charge amount that stores a charge amount in association with each of the plurality of areas. In order to determine the price, the computer accumulates the charge amount of the area displayed by the user out of the plurality of areas and calculates the accumulated charge amount, and the user purchase application for the book If accepted, a sales amount determination means for determining the sales amount of the book based on the difference between the accumulated billing amount and the price of the book, and the user sets any of the plurality of regions of the book to be constant When not displaying for more than a period, the charge amount of the area displayed last by the user is changed, and the changed charge amount is changed to the charge amount stored in association with the last displayed area A book sales amount determination program book sales amount determination program and book sales determination method, characterized in that to function as a stage.

  According to the book sales amount determination device, the book sales amount determination program, and the book sales amount determination method, when a user browses a book, the book seller temporarily does not purchase the book. In this case, the cost can be charged to the user and the loss can be suppressed. Since the user can browse the book freely with a sense of browsing, it is easy to determine the purchase of the book. Further, the user only has to pay the difference between the price of the book and the accumulated charge amount. This makes it easier for users to purchase books.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system including a book sales amount determination apparatus according to the first embodiment. This system includes a book information management server 100, a user terminal 110, and a book sales company terminal 120. The book information management server 100, the user terminal 110, and the book sales company terminal 120 are connected via a network 102. ing.

  The book information management server 100 includes a CPU 10 (central processing unit) and a storage device 30 such as a hard disk or a nonvolatile memory. The user terminal 110 has a CPU 30, a display device 44 such as a liquid crystal display or electronic paper, and an input device 42 such as a keyboard. The user terminal 110 is, for example, a personal computer installed in a book sales company or a book sales store, a user's personal computer, a mobile terminal, or the like. The book sales company terminal 120 is a book sales terminal of a book sales company or an online shop terminal. A plurality of user terminals 110 and book sales company terminals 120 may be provided. In this case, for example, even if a user uses a different user terminal 110 at a different book store, the information in the book information management server 100 can be taken over.

  FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the book sales amount determination device included in the book information management server 100. Referring to FIG. 2, the CPU 10 includes a book display unit 12, a display page calculation unit 14, a charge amount accumulation unit 16, a flag update unit 17, a purchase determination unit 18, a sales amount determination unit 20, and a sales amount transmission unit 24. Yes. The storage device 30 has a book database 32, a charging database 34, and a user database 36.

  The book has a plurality of areas. An area is a unit for charging. In the first embodiment, one area corresponds to one page of a paper book, but a plurality of pages may be one area, or a part of a page may be one area. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating data in the book database 32. Referring to FIG. 3, the book database 32 stores, for example, a book name, code, author, publisher, price, sales period, rate of increase, rate of depreciation, rate of increase, and range of depreciation. . In addition, text data for each page of each book is also stored. In this manner, the book database 32 functions as a price storage unit that stores the price of a book.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing data in the accounting database 34. Referring to FIG. 4, the charge database 34 stores, for example, a charge amount for each page of each book. In this way, the charging database 34 functions as a charging amount storage unit that stores a charging amount in association with each of a plurality of pages (areas).

  A user who is a user of this system can acquire a user ID by registering, for example, when using this system. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing data in the user database 36. Referring to FIG. 5, the user database 36 stores, for example, a user ID, a user name, a book code currently being read, the number of already read pages, an accumulated charge amount, a determination flag, and the like in association with each other. The determination flag is information for determining the situation of each user for each book. The determination flag is a flag indicating whether a certain user is in the middle of trial reading or purchasing a book. For example, the determination flags correspond to 0, 1, 2, and 3, indicating that a book is not purchased, a trial reading is being performed, a purchase request (application) is present, and purchase has been completed.

  FIG. 6 is an example of a display screen of the display device 44. The screen of the display device 44 includes a text display area 60 for displaying the text of a book, a menu display area 62 for selecting purchase, recommendation list, trial reading history, purchase history, withdrawal, etc., charge amount and purchaseable price, next It has an amount display area 64 for displaying the page unit price, a purchase request area 66 for requesting purchase, and an advance / retreat instruction area 68 for instructing page advance / retreat.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing of the book sales amount determination apparatus. In addition, the broken line in FIG. 7 shows the flow of information. With reference to FIG. 3 and FIG. 7, the user operates the input device 42 of the user terminal 110 to input a book to be viewed and its page. The book display means 12 acquires information on the book and page that the user requested to browse from the CPU 40 of the user terminal 110. The book display means 12 acquires the text of the page of the corresponding book from the book database 32, and displays the text of the book in the text display area 60 of the display device 44 via the CPU 42 of the user terminal 110 (step S12). At this time, in the case of the first book for the user, the flag update unit 17 sets the determination flag to 1.

  The display page calculation means 14 calculates the number of pages (number of areas) of the book transmitted by the book display means 12 (step S14). The billing amount accumulating means 16 acquires the billing amount corresponding to the page displayed on the display device 44 (that is, viewed by the user) from the billing database 34 and totals the acquired billing amount. As a result, the total charge amount corresponding to the page displayed this time is calculated. The charge amount accumulating unit 16 acquires the accumulated charge amount of the book of the user from the user database 36 until the previous time. The billing amount accumulating unit 16 adds the billing amount corresponding to the page displayed this time to the previous billing amount to calculate the cumulative billing amount (step S16).

  The flag changing unit 17 determines whether each book browsed by the user has been browsed for a certain period of time (step S15). In the case of Yes, the flag changing unit 17 updates the determination flag of a book that has not been browsed for a certain period of time to 0 (step S17).

  The purchase determination means 18 determines whether the user has requested to purchase a book (step S18). For example, a purchase request is made when the user clicks on the purchase request area 56 in FIG. In the case of Yes, the flag changing means 17 updates the determination flag of the book requested for purchase in the user database 36 to 2 (step S19). In No, it returns to step S12.

  The sales amount determination means 20 acquires the price of the book from the book database 32 and calculates the difference obtained by subtracting the accumulated charge from the price of the book (step S20). The sales amount determination means 20 determines whether the difference is larger than a predetermined amount (for example, 0) (step S21). In the case of Yes, the difference is set as the book sales amount (step S22). In the case of No, the sales amount of the book is set to a predetermined amount (for example, 0) (step S23).

  The sales amount transmission means 24 transmits the sales amount of the book to the display device 44 and the book sales company terminal 120 via the CPU 40 (step S24). The display device 44 displays the sales amount as a purchaseable amount in the amount display area 64b, for example. When a user tries to purchase a target book at a book sales company, the book sales company terminal 120 sells the book based on the sales amount transmitted by the sales amount transmission means 24. For selling books, electronic data may be sent online. In addition, when the user does not purchase the book (for example, when the user has not applied for the purchase of the book for a certain period of time), the accumulated charge amount from the user's account can be collected.

  According to the first embodiment, as shown in step S16 of FIG. 7, the charge amount accumulating unit 16 acquires the charge amount of the page displayed by the user among the plurality of pages (areas), and uses the acquired charge amount. Accumulate and calculate the accumulated billing amount. When the purchase application for the book is accepted from the user as in step S18, the sales amount determination means 20 acquires the price of the book from the book database (price storage means) as in steps S20 to S23. The book sales amount is determined based on the difference between the accumulated billing amount and the book price. In this way, by charging when a user browses a book, the book seller can charge the user for expenses even if the user does not purchase the book, thereby suppressing loss. be able to. Since the user can browse the book freely with a sense of browsing, it is easy to determine the purchase of the book. Further, the user only has to pay the difference between the price of the book and the accumulated charge amount. This makes it easier for users to purchase books.

  In addition, the sales amount determination unit 24 can set the sales amount of the book as the predetermined amount when the amount obtained by subtracting the accumulated charge amount from the price of the book is equal to or larger than the predetermined amount. Thereby, the user can easily purchase a book by browsing the book more than a certain amount.

  FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B are diagrams showing examples of the billing amount and the cumulative billing amount with respect to the number of sample reading pages. Referring to FIG. 8A, the charge amount is 0 when the number of sample reading pages is A to B. Therefore, referring to FIG. 8B, the accumulated billing amount is 0 until the number of test read pages is B. That is, the user can browse for free. Referring to FIG. 8 (a), when the number of trial reading pages exceeds B, a certain charge amount is generated per page. Referring to FIG. 8B, the accumulated billing amount increases linearly with the number of pages.

  As shown in FIG. 8A, by setting the charge amount of some of the plurality of areas to 0, the user can browse the area for free. Therefore, the user can browse a part of the book without paying the viewing fee. Furthermore, it is possible to make the charge amount other than the area where the charge amount is zero among the plurality of areas constant. For example, if the charge amount per page from page number B to C is (book price / number of pages from B to C), the book can be purchased by browsing all pages.

  The second embodiment is an example in which the charge amount is changed for each page. FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of the charge amount changing unit 50 included in the book sales amount determination apparatus according to the second embodiment. Charge amount changing means 50 is included in CPU 10 and has charge amount addition means 52 and charge amount subtraction means 54.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating the processing of the second embodiment. The billing amount changing means 50 determines whether or not the flag updating means 17 has updated the determination flag for all users browsing the target book during the processing of FIG. 7 of the first embodiment (step S50). . In FIG. 7, it is determined whether the flag update means 17 has updated the determination flag in step S17 or step S19. In No, it complete | finishes and returns to step S50. In the case of Yes, the billing amount changing means 50 determines whether the determination flag is 2 (step S52). In the case of Yes (that is, when one of the users has applied for the purchase of the target book), the charge amount adding means 52 is the page (target page) displayed last by the user in the charge database 34. The charge amount is added (step S53). Specifically, the charge addition unit 52 acquires an increase amount indicating the addition amount of the charge amount from the book database 32. Alternatively, the billing amount adding means 52 may obtain an increase billing rate from the book database 32 and set the amount obtained by multiplying the current billing amount by the billing rate as the increase amount. The billing amount adding means 52 acquires the billing amount of the target page from the billing database 34 and sets it as the first billing amount. The increased amount is added to the first billing amount and stored in the billing database 34 as the second billing amount.

  In the case of No in step S52, the billing amount changing unit 50 determines whether the determination flag is 0 (step S54). In the case of Yes (that is, when the user does not display any of the plurality of pages of the book for a certain period of time), the billing amount subtraction unit 54 displays the last page displayed by the user in the billing database 34 ( The charge amount of the target page is subtracted (step S54). Specifically, the billing amount subtracting unit 54 obtains a depreciation width indicating the billing amount subtracted amount from the book database 32. Alternatively, the billing amount subtracting unit 54 may obtain a reduced billing rate from the book database 32, and use the current billed amount multiplied by the reduced billing rate as the reduced price. The billing amount subtracting unit 54 acquires the billing amount for the target page from the billing database 34 and sets it as the first billing amount. The depreciation width is subtracted from the first billing amount and stored in the billing database 34 as the third billing amount. If No in step S54, the process ends and returns to step S50.

  According to the second embodiment, as shown in steps S52 and S53 of FIG. 10, when the user makes an application for purchasing a book, the billing amount adding means 52 before the user makes an application for purchasing the book. A predetermined amount is added to the charge amount of the area displayed last, and the charge amount is stored in the charge database 34. Thus, the last page viewed by the user when purchasing a book is a page that has caused the user's desire to purchase. Such a page is a page that the book seller does not want to browse so much. In the second embodiment, it is possible to increase the charge amount of a page that is not desired to be browsed so much. The billing amount adding means 52 may not add an increase to the billing amount when the billing amount becomes a fixed amount. That is, an upper limit of the charge amount can be set. The billing amount changing means 50 may reduce the billing amount in the area displayed last. That is, the charge amount changing means 50 may change the charge amount of the area displayed last.

  Also. When the user does not display the book for a certain period or longer, the charging amount subtracting unit 54 subtracts a predetermined amount from the charging amount of the page displayed last by the user and stores it in the charging database 34 as the charging amount. As described above, when the user does not display the book for a certain period or longer, the page viewed last is the page in which the user has lost interest in the book. Such a page is a page that may be viewed as a book seller. In the second embodiment, the billing amount of a page that can be browsed can be reduced. The billing amount subtracting means 54 may not subtract the depreciation from the billing amount when the billing amount reaches a certain amount (for example, 0). That is, a lower limit of the charge amount can be set. The billing amount changing means 50 may increase the billing amount for the area displayed last. That is, the charge amount changing means 50 may change the charge amount of the area displayed last.

  As shown in FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B in the first embodiment, the charge amount is 0 when the number of preview pages is A to B, and when the number of preview pages exceeds B, the charge amount is constant per page. The state where the occurrence of the error occurs is set as an initial value of information in the accounting database 34. 11 (a) and 11 (b9) are diagrams showing examples of the charge amount and the accumulated charge amount with respect to the number of sample reading pages after performing the processing of FIG. 10 of the second embodiment. For reference, the charge amount is 0 when the number of sample pages is A to B. Therefore, referring to Fig. 11B, the accumulated charge amount is 0 when the number of sample pages is B. That is, the embodiment Similar to 1, the user can browse for free.

  On the other hand, referring to FIG. 11 (a) and FIG. 11 (b), in the trial reading pages B to C, the charge amount differs depending on the page. By performing the processing of FIG. 10, the charged amount of the page that the user is interested in becomes high, and the charged amount of the page that is not interested in becomes low. Therefore, it is possible to increase the charge amount of a page (a page that the user is interested in) that the book sales company does not want to be browsed by the user.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, the billing amount corresponding to each page can be varied for a plurality of pages. In addition to the second embodiment, for example, browsing up to the page immediately before the page that the user is interested in can be made free.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited to such specific embodiments, and various modifications and changes can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims. It can be changed.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the book sales amount determination apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing data in the book database. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing data in the accounting database. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing data in the user database. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen of the display device. FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the process. FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B are diagrams showing a charge amount and a cumulative charge amount for the trial reading page, respectively. FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of the charge amount changing means of the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of processing performed by the charge amount changing means. FIG. 11A and FIG. 11B are diagrams showing the billing amount and the cumulative billing amount for the trial reading page, respectively.

Explanation of symbols

10 CPU
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 12 Book display means 14 Display page calculation means 16 Charge amount accumulation means 17 Flag change means 18 Purchase judgment means 20 Sales amount determination means 22 Sales amount transmission means 30 Storage device 32 Book database 34 Charge database 36 User database 40 CPU
42 Input device 44 Display device 50 Charge amount changing means 52 Charge amount addition means 54 Charge amount subtraction means

Claims (10)

Price storage means for storing the price of a book composed of a plurality of areas;
Billing amount storage means for storing a billing amount in association with each of the plurality of areas;
A billing amount accumulating unit for acquiring a billing amount of a region displayed by a user among the plurality of regions from the billing amount storage unit, and accumulating the acquired billing amount to calculate a cumulative billing amount;
When the book purchase application is received from the user, the price of the book is acquired from the price storage means, and the sales amount of the book is determined based on the difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book Amount determination means;
When the user has applied for the purchase of the book, the charge amount of the area displayed last by the user before applying for the purchase of the book is changed, and the changed charge amount is changed to the charge amount. Billing amount changing means to be stored in the storage means;
A book sales amount determination device. Price storage means for storing the price of a book composed of a plurality of areas;
Billing amount storage means for storing a billing amount in association with each of the plurality of areas;
A billing amount accumulating unit for acquiring a billing amount of a region displayed by a user among the plurality of regions from the billing amount storage unit, and accumulating the acquired billing amount to calculate a cumulative billing amount;
When the book purchase application is received from the user, the price of the book is acquired from the price storage means, and the sales amount of the book is determined based on the difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book Amount determination means;
When the user does not display any of the plurality of areas of the book for a certain period or longer, the charge amount of the area last displayed by the user is changed, and the changed charge amount is stored in the charge amount storage. Billing amount changing means to be stored in the means ;
A book sales amount determination device. The sales determining means, the amount obtained by subtracting the cumulative charge amount from the price of the book if more than a predetermined amount, according to claim 1 or 2 wherein, characterized in that said prescribed amount of sales of the book Book sales amount determination device. Book sales amount determination apparatus according to any one of claims 1, wherein 3 in that some of the charge amount is 0 among the plurality of regions. The book sales amount determination apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a charge amount other than the part of the plurality of areas is constant. The charge amount is book sales amount determination apparatus according to any one claim of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that different by the plurality of regions. A computer for determining a selling price of the book from a price of the book composed of a plurality of areas and a charge amount storing a charge amount in association with each of the plurality of areas;
Charge amount accumulation means for accumulating the charge amount of the area displayed by the user among the plurality of areas and calculating the accumulated charge amount;
A sales amount determination means for determining a sales amount of the book based on a difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book, when receiving an application for purchasing the book from the user;
When the user applies for the purchase of the book, the user changes the charge amount of the area displayed last before applying for the purchase of the book, and the changed charge amount is Billing amount changing means as a billing amount stored in association with the displayed area;
Book sales amount determination program characterized by functioning as A computer for determining a selling price of the book from a price of the book composed of a plurality of areas and a charge amount storing a charge amount in association with each of the plurality of areas;
Charge amount accumulation means for accumulating the charge amount of the area displayed by the user among the plurality of areas and calculating the accumulated charge amount;
A sales amount determination means for determining a sales amount of the book based on a difference between the accumulated charge amount and the price of the book, when receiving an application for purchasing the book from the user;
When the user does not display any of the plurality of areas of the book for a certain period or longer, the charge amount of the area displayed last by the user is changed, and the changed charge amount is displayed last. Billing amount changing means as a billing amount to be stored in association with the area,
Book sales amount determination program characterized by functioning as Book sales amount determination executed by a computer to determine the selling price of the book from the price of the book composed of a plurality of regions and the charge amount for storing the charge amount in association with each of the plurality of regions A method,
A step of accumulating the charge amount of the area displayed by the user among the plurality of areas and calculating the accumulated charge amount; and
When receiving a purchase application for the book from the user, determining a sales amount of the book based on a difference between the accumulated charge and the price of the book;
When the user applies for the purchase of the book, the user changes the charge amount of the area displayed last before applying for the purchase of the book, and the changed charge amount is A charge amount stored in association with the displayed area; and
A method for determining the book sales amount. Book sales amount determination executed by a computer to determine the selling price of the book from the price of the book composed of a plurality of regions and the charge amount for storing the charge amount in association with each of the plurality of regions A method,
A step of accumulating the charge amount of the area displayed by the user among the plurality of areas and calculating the accumulated charge amount; and
When receiving a purchase application for the book from the user, determining a sales amount of the book based on a difference between the accumulated charge and the price of the book;
When the user does not display any of the plurality of areas of the book for a certain period or longer, the charge amount of the area displayed last by the user is changed, and the changed charge amount is displayed last. A charge amount to be stored in association with the area,
A method for determining the book sales amount.

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