How Easy is it to Build Your Own Online Bookshop
Here's the easiest solution to getting your Amazon, Ebay, ABE or other book database visible on the web to millions of potential customers without the worry of increased fees. With Billions of books and millions of customers the shopfront for your bookstore online is immense.
Whether you want to sell 200 books online, display your bookshop stock of 10,000 on the world wide web, or are looking for a cost effective solution to putting your barn of 100,000 available to the whole internet this all in one solution will make it easy and affordable.
We show you here how easy it will be to put your inventory of books before millions of customers searching online for books.
Want Your Own Online Bookstore?
Cut Down on Fees Paid to Amazon and Ebay and Sell to Customers Directly
# A professionally designed bookstore with integrated shopping cart.
# Chrislands hosts and maintains your site - No costly server fees for you.
# Chrislands provides all the software to support your store on our servers.
# You have no software to purchase or install.
# Chrislands integrates with your book inventory database program.
# No technical expertise required - you follow simple step by step instructions.
# Chrislands Bookstore service works with your current payment methods.
Example Chrislands Sites
These Booksellers use Chrislands
If you use chrislands to operate your own online bookstore feel free to add it below.
Also, feel free to vote on sellers you have had good experiences with.
Alex The Fat Dawg
Over 85,000, including CD's and DVD's.<br />
This online bookstore was built to the owners specifications in only a few weeks, due to the quantity and turno...1 point
Celtic Fringes
Specialising in Celtic books, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and art nooks, including out-of-print books, used books, secondha...1 point
Durnick Books
Well established Scottish online bookshop. 25,000+ titles in stock, regular Buy One Get One Free Offers. Stock fully categorised and searchable by aut...1 point
The Robb-Inn Bookshop
Experienced and Knowledgeable Online book seller.<br />
Book Search Service Available.1 point
Horse Under Water Books
Specializing in rare books, out-of-print books, used books, secondhand books, and other hard-to-find books.0 points
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Amazon Webstores
Or for more info on Amazon webstores.....
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Amazon Webstores
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Example Webstores By Amazon Bookselling Websites
In The Garden & more
Not a book selling site, but I had to start this list off somewhere!0 points
Other Online Bookstores
Some other examples of online book stores. If your bookstore isn't using amazon webstores or Chrislands please add your link here, and feel free to tell how it is built or run in the comments.
Seekbooks Australia
An Australian bookstore with a stock of over 1.5million books0 points
ABE Books
Buys Out Chrislands
From an email sent on 9th April 2008
Later today there will be a public announcement that AbeBooks has purchased Chrislands. We (Lance and Jaymes) agonized over the decision whether to accept AbeBook's purchase offer. Although the terms of the agreement are not being disclosed, the one area
of the agreement that we can disclose is that AbeBooks agreed to allow us to continue to operate Chrislands.com.
Before accepting the offer, we talked to Anirvan Chatterjee and Charlie Hsu at BookFinder.com.You may recall in 2005 AbeBooks purchased BookFinder.com. Anirvan and Charlie confirmed AbeBooks has allowed them to continue to operate BookFinder.com without dictating how BookFinder.com should be run. We will continue to operate Chrislands
in the same manner as always. Our commitment to Chrislands customers is not changing, our support is not changing, and our commitment to continually improving the stores will not change.
We are excited about partnering with AbeBooks because AbeBooks provides resources to Chrislands that we would not otherwise have available. The next improvement we will add is the capability for your books to be included in BookFinder.com search results. We are currently working with BookFinder.com on this new feature. We will soon release the details of how to integrate your store into Bookfinder.com
search results. It is our intent that the capability to be included in BookFinder.com search results is only the first of many improvements we can make using the resources that AbeBooks is making available to us.
Sincerely,
Lance and Jaymes
Chrislands Inc.
We will bring you any updates to this as and when they occur.
Can I upload my books from my current book database program?
* BookRouter.com - Recommend
* BookTrakker - Highly Recommended
* Readerware
* Homebase
* BookHound
* Bookmate
* theArtofBooks.com
* FillZ.com
* Any program that can export in UIEE format
* Any program that can export in our tab-delimited format
* Any program that can export in our comma-delimited format
Booksellers Blogging
See what other Booksellers are Blogging about!
This feed is updated daily, so feel free to return!
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If you already have a domain name, switching to Chrislands Bookstore service is an easy process. We will assist you in setting up your domain name to work on Chrislands Servers. When you complete the online application for our bookstore service you will provide us the information needed to start building your store. We will normally have your store operational within 5 to 7 business days. After the store is operational, it is just a matter of uploading your inventory from your database program.
If you are undecided as to whether to sign-up now, or in the future it is highly recommended that you reserve the URL (website address) ASAP, as you may find someone else will come along and buy it up!
Personalize Your Bookstore?
# Company logo
# Home page message and graphics
# Custom categories
# Privacy Statement
# Links Page
# About us page
# Contact us page
# Store policies page
# Off-Line Search Service Page
# Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Page
# You can add your own web pages
Promote Books and Reading
So Many Books... T-shirt
Price: 18.99 
Long Sleeve T-Shirt
Price: 19.99
Eat Sleep Read Long Sleeve T-Shirt
Price: 27.99
I Love Reading White T-Shirt
Price: 17.99
Chrislands Custom Built Websites
Available from $9.99 a month
These fees are very competitive with other sites such as ABE, Albris, Biblio and Amazon. No Final Value fee or commission is taken on any sales making it even better value.
There is a one-off fee of $199.99 to set up your store in the first place, this includes working with you to build and design your site, which should be operational within 5-7 working days.
What types of payments can I accept?
Any!
You can use any existing Merchant Account you already use to process payments or be directed to a recommended low cost merchant to handle credit card purchases.
You can use Google Checkout, or Paypal, both of which are easily integrated into your store.
What can I sell through my Chrislands Bookstore?
CD's, DVD's, PC Games, almost anything!
# Illegal substances and activities
# Gambling and pyramid schemes
# Products and services that infringe on copyrighted property of others
Want More Control Of Your Bookstore?
With hundreds of templates and a lot more control this solution for ecommerce does provide a great starting place. Though note that pricing is based on number of products available and if you have a stock of more than a few thousand you may wish to consider and compare prices with the Chrislands solution.
Business Cards for the Book Seller
There are many occasions you will require a business card, whilst it may be fine to hand over your number or website details on a bus ticket or old bookmark, nothing compares to the professionalism of a Business Card.
Here we highlight 2 companies delivering quality products at good prices, both allowing you to customise the design and add your own graphics online -
Vistaprint are one of the UK's leaders in providing Business Cards. Although the hook is Cards are Free, this is based on a number of basic templates and your cards will have a small vistaprint ad on the rear (not very professional). They do offer an affordable pro-service where you can pay to upload your own image/design which is easy even for the novice, and this premium service does not carry the vistaprint ad on the reverse. They also try to get you to upgrade and buy more at almost every click, but they are still a reasonably good solution if you require cards.
Saxoprint are more specialist print provider, supplying postcards, flyers and all manner of paper printed materials. They are also very competitive on price whilst being a little more up-front about the actual costs.
Bookshelf Systems For Booksellers
ShelfStore are one of the biggest suppliers and stock one of the biggest ranges of modular shelving units in the UK.
Shelfstore Shelving System is a multifunctional bookcase / shelving system for the home, office, shop, school etc. You can create any arrangement you wish from a simple shelving unit to a complete library or storage solution.
They have been distributing their system in the UK since 1979. The system is used all around the home and office as well as schools, collages, universities and local and central government. All components and made in Sweden and constructed from solid wood and sourced from sustainable forests.
The unique shelf support system allows shelves to take very heavy loads. A shelf measuring 80 x 30 cm can easily carry 100kg.
They have an interactive web site where customers can design a shelving system to fit their specific space.
Used Lots of Bulk Books on Ebay UK
These may or may not be good investments!
This list is updated regularly and only includes auctions for used book lots that have received at least 2 bids
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Popular auctions for Used Book Lots In The USA
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Please feel free to leave comments or Questions.
Also If you have a Chrislands Website, drop us a line to share your experience, also you may wish to include your website to be featured as an example.
redwhiteandgrew wrote...
This is brilliant! Am going to follow the tips this week!
Posted August 31, 2008
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