Bookselling Online Blog http://booksellingonlineblog.com News, commentary, and tips for online booksellers Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:43:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 en My Blogging Days Are Numbered… http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/09/01/my-blogging-days-are-numbered/ http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/09/01/my-blogging-days-are-numbered/#comments Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:30:57 +0000 PaulB Commentary Potpourri http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/17/my-blogging-days-are-numbered/ Hey BSOBers!

I am very sad to say that I will need to retire from posting on the blog.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working and talking with all of you, you’re a fantastic group of people with creative ideas and a good sense of community.

The company I work for has recently landed a new client that is going to absorb a significant portion of my time - which means I won’t be able to give the blog the attention it deserves.

That being said, both Lucas and I are very hopeful that one of you would like to contribute to BSOB. Not only will you be able to provide the news and insight other booksellers are looking for, the networking opportunities are fabulous! I have met some of the greatest people as part of my experience here.

If you are interested, please drop Lucas a line to help maintain what I feel is one of the most positive communities in business. You can reach Lucas by emailing: editor [at} booksellingonlineblog {dot] com
Thank you all once again!

Sincerely,

Paul

]]> http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/09/01/my-blogging-days-are-numbered/feed/ TextBooks Are Making News http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/22/textbooks-are-making-news/ http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/22/textbooks-are-making-news/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:38:13 +0000 PaulB Industry E-Commerce Small Business http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/22/textbooks-are-making-news/ As the first semester after the summer gets closer more news articles are covering the plight of the student and what they’re doing to avoid the high textbook cost.

Even if textbooks are not your specialty, it couldn’t hurt if you have a good source of textbooks that you can resell for less than the campus bookstore.

To read the latest article on textbooks, click here

]]> http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/22/textbooks-are-making-news/feed/ Good Reference for Book Listing Services http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/21/good-reference-for-book-listing-services/ http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/21/good-reference-for-book-listing-services/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:24:36 +0000 PaulB Industry E-Commerce Potpourri http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/21/good-reference-for-book-listing-services/ BookRouter, a central place to manage a number of book listing services (like AbeBooks, Amazon, Alibris, etc) has a good list of available places to list your inventory.

Even if you’re not interested in using BookRouter’s services, you can see use their list as a good reference point and comparison list for the available marketplaces out there.

To view the list, click here

]]> http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/21/good-reference-for-book-listing-services/feed/ More Rare Books To Become Common-Place http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/20/more-rare-books-to-become-common-place/ http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/20/more-rare-books-to-become-common-place/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:12:45 +0000 PaulB Commentary Industry http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/20/more-rare-books-to-become-common-place/ I just read a post from RareBookNews.com stating that the University of Pennsylvania is going to start digitizing the rare books within their stacks. While their intent is to increase access and availability of the contents for scholars, I can’t help fearing for the value of an edition if it is easily read by anyone.

To read the post from Rare Book News, click here

This raises another issue, digitally delivered books. I think we all need to start thinking about how to avoid the same crash the movie and music industries have endured at the hands of file sharing.

While there are ways to try and secure our medium like developing anti scan printing techniques,  the players in the movie and music industries who have been successful have embraced file sharing and altered their business models to fit.

You may want to start thinking how can you alter your business model to sell books digitally - and legitimately

]]> http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/20/more-rare-books-to-become-common-place/feed/ Ka-Zam Requests Your Help For Their Next Version http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/16/ka-zam-requests-your-help-for-their-next-version/ http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/16/ka-zam-requests-your-help-for-their-next-version/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:09:51 +0000 PaulB Industry E-Commerce Potpourri http://booksellingonlineblog.com/2007/08/16/ka-zam-requests-your-help-for-their-next-version/ Ka-Zam, an e-commerce solution for booksellers, has prepared a survey to help them build the next version of their software offering.

From Ka-Zam’s website:

“Ka-Zam is a web-based service which enables efficient transactions for bookstores selling both online and in traditional retail environments. Combining point-of-sale, data entry speedups, real-time pricing, simultaneous access via multiple employee accounts, Internet order processing, inventory warehousing, and an individual e-commerce website under an easy to use web-based interface, Ka-Zam provides its community of booksellers with the data-rich feature set they need to maximize profits.”

The survey is located here

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