Archive for the 'Bookselling' Category
May
9 months out.
BookRabbit from idea to launch shares the gestation period of a human child, and, despite it sounding clichéd, I do feel quite a bit of anxiety about whether it’ll be able to hop or not. Over the next few days we’ll do all we can to make sure that it can, especially focusing [...]
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Books of the week
Books I’ve bought this week & why:
1. ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar – it kept appearing on people’s bookcases on BookRabbit and they said it was good, so I’m now two thirds of the way through it and yes it is good. It’s a ‘teen’ title and it shows but enjoyable nonetheless.
2. ‘Once Upon a Time [...]
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A big long list
Now we have the beta up – it’s doing the trick – I want to change loads of stuff. Nothing fundamental, just need to fine tune the bookcase application, it’s too tough to use, make the social networking more focused on the interact page, make bookcases more obvious, add tree structure to classification etc etc [...]
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Yes okay it’s about 1000% smaller – but still, it’s not the size that counts. Our distribution manager Sid has done a fantastic job of getting us ready for handling orders, he used to work at GAME with me and is used to processing quite a few orders every day!
Basically this is below the office [...]
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The Bookselling Business
A brief quote from the introductory note by Thomas Joy:
“It is necessary for a bookseller to be abreast of the times not only with his buying of stock, but with the systems of successful retailing. He must get rid of old-fashioned methods which inhibit his business, but hold fast to that which is good in [...]
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Bookselling utopia?
The Internet definitely isn’t going away. The decisions made six or so years ago, at the end of the dotcom boom are now being rolled back, Waterstone’s parting from Amazon, Borders finally forging ahead with its stand alone e-commerce site, even WHSmith seems to have discovered it still owns a web site.
I wrote a [...]
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Nothing like building it up
Here goes. I’ve been given the chance to take on the best people I can find, make a bug list of all the things that ‘bugged me’ about the book industry and then attempt to solve them with a new site.
This started in September and we’re powering towards publishing the site on the 19th March, [...]
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