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.
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.”
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced it has signed a lease agreement to open a new Barnes & Noble bookstore in Cumming, Georgia, which is in the greater Atlanta area. The bookstore, expected to open in April 2008, will be located in The Avenue Forsythe shopping center at the northwest corner of Georgia Highway 141 and Ronald Reagan Parkway. The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and include a café serving Starbucks coffee.
Barnes & Noble’s bookselling innovations have established it as America’s top bookseller brand. For the fourth year in a row, the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive® named Barnes & Noble bookstores number one in overall brand equity, which is based on a brand’s strength in familiarity, quality and purchase intent. The new store will feature:
