tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111033412011-12-14T21:58:37.001-05:00This site seeks to provide critical commentary on the online bookselling industry. Random tips, offers, sites, and fun information will be an important part of this blog. We are open to adding new contributors at this time.Booksellernoreply@blogger.comBlogger3621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11103341.post-1154401008957977342006-07-31T22:55:00.000-04:002006-07-31T22:56:49.396-04:00

If you follow us through a feed service, you may have missed that we've moved to a new domain and layout. First check it out and then update your feed to http://www.booksellingonlineblog.com/feed/

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Thanks to Lifehacker for reminding us today about Toolhaus, a great resource for researching feedback/sellers on eBay. Below are the four main utilities:Enter a user ID to view negative/neutral feedback received or leftSee the feedback which two eBay users have left each other, or you can enter an item number to check the seller and buyer/current high bidderShow a user's recent feedback with the

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I have received a bevy of emails in the past day from angry eBay store owners about fee and placement changes for eBay store owners. As of 22 August, insertion fees for eBay store listings will increase by 150-400%. Commission fees will be 10% on sold items.Fee increases are always the most contentious because they impose the most direct consequences. However, eBay also announced that it will

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Interestingly, Australian booksellers are facing their own issues regarding international mail - and much more devastating ones at that. Currently, the point of contention centers around the Australia Post decision to terminate the economy international air mail option when sending abroad. According to the article, this will result in an increase of over 20% to send a book abroad, something that

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Looking at the bookselling industry from a growth (shareholder) perspective, you have to look online. Brick and mortar booksales simply do not have strong growth potential, even for a chain like Borders. Not only can online sales help increase gross sales, but it also complements and strengthens a company's brick and mortar brand.I was sipping my coffee and reading the Times and was intrigued

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Amazon wisely updated their reimbursement for international shipments on books, giving sellers an additional $0.19 making for a net decrease for sellers of $0.17 as opposed to $0.36 as previously stated (original post).

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In today's Shelf Awareness, there is a great column about keeping customers coming back to your website store. This article pays particular attention to an often neglected part of independent bookstore websites - selling books. My favorite part of this piece is how the author reminds us of a time when "the notion of a bookshop that went to where the readers were wasn't revolutionary.

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We all saw what a terrible disaster Hurricane Katrina was, but just as bad as the week following the disaster are the years of putting the pieces back together. One of the many small stories within the story, is the devastation of Gulf Coast library collections. Now thanks to the website Dewey Donation System, which by the way earns today's award for coolest name, you can easily connect with

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It seems like my Amazon feed is working overdrive with the amount of changes we've seen recently. The most recent is a notification that the company will terminate the "Sold, Ship Now" emails currently send to sellers. They will be replaced with a new desktop application for order notification. "We recognize that changing the content of the “Sold, ship now” e-mails might require an adjustment

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Abebooks' 10-year birthday has generated another nice little article in a Canadian major daily. Check out the feature from the Toronto Star.

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The Association of American Publishers has posted their update of book sales for May 2006. Adult paperbacks and children's hardcover were very strong performers. Of note, religion book sales, once the strongest genre, dropped over twenty percent year to year. (See Press Release)

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The seller community is abuzz about the imminent shipping reimbursement changes at Amazon. The changes are below and speak for themselves. The one thing that is clear is that Amazon is hoping to push sellers away from offering expedited and international listings. This may be a move to boost it's own listings for this type of consumer, or more likely, its Amazon Prime base.Regular shipping (

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Know your industry. Check out this great online fact sheet on the book industry. This page includes domestic and international statistics. While it is surprising that this page is catching some web buzz this week (the stats are kinda old), the jist of the data is still immensely useful.

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When a column in a modest sized regional newspaper (cir. 105,782) snubbed neighbor Alibris when discussing online book buying, the Emeryville, CA based company didn't want to let it slide. In fact, they decided to respond and get their own ink - is this a new PR strategy... brute force marketing? View the article and the second reader response.

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This week eBay made it official: Google checkout will not be an acceptable method of payment for eBay auctions. I am not altogether surprised at this as an initial response - Right now they don't need Google. By immediately opening themselves up to the system, they only serve to debase their own business, legitimize Google's new endeavor, and show a real fear that Checkout is the next big thing

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The previously discussed redeployment of Biblion with Biblio integration is now live. Press release.See: A Strong Move for Biblio and Biblio close to relaunching Biblion.

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A recent press release from Biblio* and Intrapromote states"The number of 'www.biblio.com' appearances on page 1 at Google, MSN, and Yahoo have more than doubled after optimization," says Doug Ausbury, of Intrapromote. "Breaking that down even further, the number of appearances on pages 1 and 2 at these same search engines have increased 125% after optimization, and the number of appearances on

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An interesting article notes that garage remain "stylish" despite the growing popularity of Craigslist and other online mediums. Many online booksellers remain committed to garage sales as a source of inventory, especially with the increasingly crowded and "vulturistic" environment at book sales these days. Garage sales are so incredibly time consuming that you really have to be an expert at

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I'd like to applaud Anirvan and BookFinder for making some really necessary changes on his site. The previous site layout really was not set-up to make it in the new internet browsing world of clarity, ease, and efficiency. The new site is a huge improvement and I will definitely be making more use out of it. The other change integrates shipping prices into the search results to allow users to

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I have to admit, many of Google's new ventures are, while pretty cool, not always aligned with my own internet needs ... until now. It is rumored that this week Google will launch an online payment service to compete with Paypal. GBuy, once rumored to be Google Wallet, is said to cost more than Paypal, but will offer discounts for AdWords clients.Paypal, an eBay subsidiary, currently operates

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As B&N begins its third party seller program for invited sellers, in what they call "Beta" mode, there are a variety of ways they could elevate this part of the website. One of the issues I would consider most important would be integration of their used books into the metasearch engines, especially Addall and Bookfinder. I would not be surprised if this action alone doubled the site's used

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I've always been a big proponent of business carving out their own space online, in the form of a website, storefront, ProStore, whatever your fancy. Often, it is difficult to see the advantages of this type of efforts because of the difficulty of drawing organic hits into your online space (aka marketing). Thankfully, eBay is continuing to help its sellers promote their own space on the site

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In back through some archived posts from fellow bloggers, I noticed an interesting article from this Monday entitled, "eBay Booksellers: Do I Give Away Too Many Secrets?".The jist of the article was a response to some curmudgeon criticizing Elaine for giving away too many trade "secrets." Particularly irksome to said lover of protected markets was how Elaine shared the top collectible books and

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Alibris announced a neat program offering a scholarship to one of its sellers for the Colorado Antiquarian Book Market Seminar. The scholarship will cover not only tution costs, but also travel and related expenses.****To apply please submit an application under the following guidelines: Write a one-page letter (1,000 words or less) describing why you wish to attend and should

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UPDATE:Biblio.com is currently testing its new design and integration of Biblion, the strong UK listings service, and hopes to launch by the end of June. (See: Strong Move for Biblio, 7 April 2006)** BSOB is an affiliate of Biblio.com, contracting through an independent operator.

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Many people have questioned how much Barnes and Noble's new program for working with 3rd party booksellers at bn.com will mean? Will the "by invitation" roll out occurring right now lead to bigger things or simply another weak attempt from the site to improve its gross sales? The scale of the "invitation only" initiative will not have enough impact on the website or the online bookselling market

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The power of online bookselling is amazing. The Des Moines Register has a great article that features the power of the internet to open brick and mortar doors... in some unlikely places.

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Wow! Barnes and Noble finally did it. In a move I've been encouraging for some time (and another favorite blast from the past) to inflate less than stellar performance of bn.com, Barnes and Noble is ready to roll out its own version of Amazon's third party marketplace for used books. Take a look and sign up for yourself! My "little birdy" information pipeline wasn't altogether flowing on this

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Well, it should be us, the sellers (unfortunately), but it seems as if some sellers are passing the short shrift along to the consumer. In a pretty coherent rant about Amazon marketplace sellers, "The Thinking Mother", gives her thoughts on buying used on Amazon. What bothers me the most about this blog post is the perception that the independent seller receives the entire $3.49 for shipping.

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Better late than never, but Auctionbytes is reporting that eBay is due to take action against eBay users charging excessive shipping on their site. I love it.

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A blast from the past, take a look at the Alibris website on 12/1998. What about five years ago today? Or, my personal favorite, Abebooks from 10/1996.

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I read a post today on a certain 3rd party software blog and found it kind of amusing. "We were contacted by AbeBooks that they have started suspending accounts for anyone who is found to be excessively scanning prices on their website. Please turn off competitive scanning for AbeBooks, otherwise you will risk losing your account."Take it for what it is worth.

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The Globe and Mail has a wonderful feature on Ms. Cathy Waters and the beginning of ABEBooks posted today. The piece takes you back to the roots of Abe in 1996 and discusses Ms. Waters' current ventures.

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In case you missed it, Abebooks is currently running a marketing campaign entitled: The Not-Book Campaign. The rationale, "With over 80 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books for sale from 13,500 booksellers, Abebooks.com has the world's largest selection. So if you can't find a book on our site, it probably doesn't exist." Kind of cute, and has already drawn

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Cool new service, Terapeak, is currently offering a free two week trial of their website. Having current market research is a huge advantage when competing on eBay and Terapeak had already offered product-based research to eBay sellers to gain this edge - along with a multitude of other free and subscription services. Their new service, providing data on eBay sellers, however, is a relatively

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Is the US reading less and less? Probably. Is this a big deal for online booksellers? Perhaps so. Does all the recent fanfare about the UK publishing more titles per year than the US mean a lot? Not at all. What it has done is served as a catalyst for bringing up questions one and two. But to say that this is indicative of the issues surrounding the first two points is obtuse. We can compare

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Thanks for the feedback on the original, here is the other data as requested by many of you. Based on Google searches, these are the top ten locations of Abebooks browsers in 2005.1. Victoria Canada 2. Milton Keynes United Kingdom 3. Bletchley United Kingdom 4. Brentford United Kingdom 5. Vancouver Canada 6. London United

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Based on Google searches, these are the top ten locations of Alibris browsers in 2005.1. San Francisco, CA USA 2. Pleasanton, CA USA 3. New York, NY USA 4. Seattle, WA USA 5. Boston, MA USA 6. Austin, TX USA 7. Los Angeles, CA USA 8. Washington, DC USA 9. Denver, CO USA 10

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The ABA has posted a nice little round up of last week's e-newsletter workshop. I think e-newsletters are more than a little dated, but if done correctly can be an extremely useful marketing tool. The problem for most is finding a newsletter provider that offers a good rate of delivery and in-depth statistics at a reasonable price. Gauging your newsletter by seeing how many people "mention" it

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In everybody vs. Google news, eBay and Yahoo! have chosen to partner on ad and search initiatives to help solidfy their positions in each respective field. (PCWorld news story)

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Yesterday, Borders Group Inc. posted a wider than expected loss of nearly $19 million. That's over 3.5 times deeper into the red than a year ago. There are some legitimate reasons for this, including the branding of Waldenbooks into "Borders Express", but I continue to wonder why Borders has not invested in an online bookselling operation (currently the store "teams" with Amazon). Borders

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Statistics for e-books in 2005 showed no increase in terms of number of units sold. This is in spite of the fact that the number of titles available increased by 20%. On a positive note for the industry, revenues were up 23%. If you've been following the blog, you are probably aware that I was not surprised by these figured when they came out in May. There is a lot of buzz that the Sony

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Canada's Indigo (found online at http://chapters.indigo.ca) posted some great looking numbers nearly doubling its net income per share. Of particular note, online sales were up nearly 23%. (News release).

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You'll have to just trust me when I say that I've had my share of bad experiences with financial institutions and my small business. It really pays to do extensive research on the bank you are deciding to patronize, including online complaint and consumer forums. Thankfully, Entrepreneur, has given us a head start on this. They have selected the best small business banks from around the

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An interesting article from the Toronto Star discussing the strong Canadian Dollar. The focus on the book industry is a welcome anecdote for online booksellers.

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Two of the biggest trends on the need currently are social networking and wikis. Now, Abebooks has completed a purchase that incorporates social networking and user created content (a la wikis). The site, LibraryThing, enjoys 35,000 users who utilize the site for cataloguing and social networking. Although users have only catalogued 2.7 million books (roughly 77 per user), the site is only

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As I reviewed the bottom of our referrers list today, I spent a good few hours perusing some sites, I hadn't been to in a long time. Through the tangled web that is that internet, I ended up at Alibris President Marty Manley's blog - now THERE is somewhere I haven't been in a while. The impetus for the link leading me there [via Using Books Weblog] is a series of postings entitled the IPO

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An interesting little blog article entitled, "A beginner’s guide to eBay: Confessions from an eBay store worker - Part 1" The type of drop-off store mentioned has sprouted up like weeks (negative connotation intended), especially in major cities. Chargingoutrageouss commissions, they offer full service auction listings services. Great idea, but since the barrier to entry in this proto-industry

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"Next year should be an interesting one.""One thing is for sure, they will be more motivated to achieve and maintain profit growth""I have no clue [how this will effect us]. I'll just think positive since I do believe the Alibris concept is a great one...""You don't seriously think this new group will care any more about our welfare than Alibris does, do you?""Did AJ take a redundancy? How many

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wWord from up at Abebooks is that the scuttlebutt regarding the company's ownership and possible changes has grown from a quiet hum to an all out roar following yesterday's move at Alibris. I have no solid information to suggest imminent changes at Abe, but, at this point, it would not surprise me. Keep your eyes and ears open.

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Press releaseWho has stake in Oak Hill:"Limited partners in Oak Hill Capital Partners II include the Oregon State Investment Council ($100 million), the California Public Employees' Retirement System ($75 million), the Ohio Public Employees' Retirement System ($75 million), the New Jersey State Board of Investments ($75 million), the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System ($20 million),

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Stuart Manley, has reposted his absolutely wonderful summary of all book listing sites on the web. The is a great reference for seasoned online sellers and newbies. Worth bookmarking.

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This one is going to hurt... After this year's 5.4% increase (12% for Media Mail), the postal service has requested another average increase of 8.5%. All signs point that you can expect an even higher rate increase again for Media Mail. (USPS Press release)

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Entrepreneur posted an article going over some of the basic "pros" to opening a ProStore on eBay. Entrepreneur's affiliation with eBay is pretty clear, so it may be worth searching for a similar "cons" article, but it is worth reading none the less.

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Now live, eBay Express, is a new attempt at eBay to take a bigger slice of the instant purchase online market. According to the site, "With eBay Express it's faster and easier than ever to breeze through all your shopping. Find the best deals on everything from designer jeans to a complete home theater system." Will a successful eBay Express finally deal a death blow to Half.com? Perhaps, but it

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Today, Shelf Awareness printed the following statement: "For our money, based on conversations with students and comments by student debaters on the subject at CAMEX in Houston, economics are key [to the success of e-texts]. If e-texts are significantly cheaper than traditional textbooks, students will load up on them."As we've posted here many times, there is not much evidence (if any) to back

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I, personally, have been encouraging sellers to stick it out with Alibris at least through the Half.com integration scheduled for the first quarter of 2006. Now I feel like a fool. In April's (isn't it almost May?) seller news the company began managing expectations on this one... Something the must be a prerequisite for all marketing staff working there... The end result is that, for sellers

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How many online booksellers got into the business, simply to open up some shelf space? My guess is that there are quite a few... Those who love books and have previously piled them near high in their homes, garages, and attics, now have a productive and fruitful way to rid themselves of unwanted titles. For bibliophiles, the most rewarding piece of this may be the opportunity to connect a great

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Every so often I get an email from some B&M owners asking about bringing their store online (on their own independent site). In every case, I give them an unqualified DO IT!Now, the key is HOW. For some stores, it makes absolutely no sense to go beyond a basic site with information about the store (hours, location, history, etc). For others, it may be a different story. The cost-benefit analysis

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In a recent interview with the New York Times, Barnes and Noble CEO, Stephen Riggio, discusses the strength of the book industry, e-books, and the company's online strategy (without mentioned used book sales). Read NYT article.

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A court has ordered Paypal to open up its ledger and share information with the government. The goal of this motion was to obtain information about tax cheats hiding money overseas. It seems likely, that government auditors will eventually be asking for information on domestic tax avoiders as well. Paypal, the leader payment services provider on the internet, processes nearly all eBay

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Given all of the complaining to be done about textbook prices, it should be of no surprise that there is a multitude of politicians and organizations seeking to remedy this problem. What most articles on this subject fail to recognize is that the single easiest way to lower costs is to purchase used books online. This can decrease the cost of books as much as 75% for some students, effectively

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Coremetics, who has worked with Alibris, has been contracted by Abebooks to help measure the success of its site reformatting. According to Abe's marketing manager, "We rely heavily on Coremetrics analytics to help us understand visitor behavior and identify and implement changes that make it easier for people to find and buy the books they want -- whether they're looking for today's bestseller,

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Bookselling Online Blog is supported by:Biblio - sellers... make use of trade discounts provided by many generous sellers on the site.[Biblio affiliate status is provided through an independent 3rd party]Shipping supplies sold at Wholesale Remainders. 500 #2 for less than $100.[Wholesale Remainders is part of the LRABooks company]Spread the word by posting the BSOB chicklet on your site/blog. (

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Long ago, before I grew unfortunately calloused to the magic of used books, I used to examine titles and wonder about their journey into my hands. Often a forgotten bookmark, like a boarding pass or even a funeral card, was the impetus for these considerations. As I've grown increasingly nostalgic about book scouting over ten years ago, in Upstate New York as a high school student, I have tried

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Biblio announced today that they will begin assisting UK-based Biblion to "strengthen" the sites "online services." This is great news for Biblio dealers and should force booksellers who have avoided or left Biblio a reason to reconsider the listings service. The press release remained vague about exact benefits for Biblio itself, it did say that it will extend "its capabilities and future

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The Daily Princetonian offered an article yesterday that dicussed a pilot program for digital textbooks at a local bookstore. According to the story, "After nearly two semesters of offering digital textbooks, the U-Store has had little success in pitching the digital manuscripts to students." (Read entire article)

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It always cracks me up to see on discussion boards the few sellers who will defend fee increases for booksellers. Some people write to me confused, hurt, dismayed, and just plain bewildered by these posts. The oft-repeated question is: "Why would a bookseller advocate for a policy change that so clearly hurts their bottom line?!" The answer, in many cases, is pretty simple. Truly professional

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This is actually a really good article, with a lot of original content regarding the security issues I've touched on lately at the eBay group of companies. Of particular concern in this article is phishing using the eBay and Paypal sites as a front.

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As always, I love to hear comments/questions regarding the postings on this blog. The email I use to manage this blog is at the top of the right hand column. A few people (2) have asked me in the almost a year since I've been doing this why I do not have the comments turned on. The primary reason for this is that they were off when I came to the blog. However, a few other real concerns exist as

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Students purchased 24% of their college texts online in 2005, said the The National Association of College Stores' Student Watch report. This number represents a significant increase (50%) over 2004 when NACS reported a 16% market share for online booksellers. A strong majority of students again reported that price was the strongest factor in deciding to buy online. (NACS press release)This study

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Ok, I really wanted to put this one to bed, but Xavier from Better World Books contacted me and said he had sent this... some how I never got it. Here is what he has to say verbatim."The recent Better World Books/Alibris partnership was formed to give libraries a mechanism to trade unwanted books for acquisition funds. This should greatly increase the acquisition budgets of participating

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Back when I discussed the Alibris/Better World Books deal, Mr. Helgesen from Better World Books, agreed to send us a 100-word piece on his organization. Regrettably, we have yet to hear from him. This is one of those irksome stories that I want to keep discussing out of principle, but feel it would be better to let rest. Sorry.

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Tower Records, the struggling CD joint, has just opened up an online bookstore. Tower, which once represented the "hip" place in cities to find new music and browse CDs, has continued to struggle since its bankruptcy in 2004. This represents an interesting move given its previous foray into bookselling in its B&M stores. The key for the company, if it wants true success, is successfully

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It was one year ago this month that Alibris masked its new fee structure as a positive for its sellers. Since that time a series of sales crushing events have occurred at the site. Now in 2006, sellers are still wondering about Half.com and remain preoccupied about what new fee may come next.

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I would venture to say that most people reading this blog absolutely love books. If not for the content inside them, then at least for the earning potential provided by them. However, books make-up a high space consuming product. Given the obscene rate of real estate these days, that constitutes a significant concern.... but not just for businesses, but also for "bibliophiles." A great article

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Paypal phishing has been extremely prolific recently and now there is an explanation of why. It seems the eBay owned website has a security flaw that allows criminals to determine Paypal users' full names, giving an added layer of legitimacy to phishing emails. (Via Auction Bytes/Derek@LughnassadhBooks)

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Paypal recently announced that you can send money using your mobile phone. It is as simple as sending a text message. I am not sure if people are looking for another vulnerability in their personal security. (News release)

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Oh boy, this one is so rife with problems, I do not even know where to begin. In case you missed it, Alibris cheered today its new partnership with Better World Books."Libraries...BWB will accept your castoffs, even pay for the outbound freight to their warehouse, and then turn around and list the books on Alibris (and elsewhere), splitting the sales proceeds with you and a charity of your

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Only tangentially relevant to this blog, Columbia University announced winners of the Bancroft prize for history. Among the three winners is the tireless Sean Wilentz, whose The Rise of American Democracy, is a remarkable feat in historical scholarship and well-deserving of the designation.

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It's my favorite times of the year: March Madness. I have to take a moment out to wish my beloved Georgetown Hoyas the best of luck in their first trip to the tournament in five years. As an alumnus and die hard fan, it's been all to long since the Hoyas have made some waves. Go GU!

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I finally am making in through my secondary news leads and found a fun little article from a New Jersey newspaper that, in essence, lauds the advent of the internet's used marketplaces.

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I am keeping a sharp eye on the growing movements by state legislators across the country to pass laws lowering textbook costs. This could have major ramifications for the online book industry. Of all the players in the textbook game, we are the only ones without a strong political voice or established position. It may be worth reviewing current legislation to stay one step ahead of the game. (

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Maintaining your own website? If so, let's face it your probably never going to draw 10,000 visitors a day as an independent. Therefore, the key aspect to your site's success will be obtaining and retaining a core group of loyal customers. One of the best ways to continually reach out to customers is through an e-newsletter. Constructing a newsletter is a bit of a science. In fact, it is a

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I really try to avoid publishing industry general news on the blog, but I thought given the scope of USNEWS' circulation and the length of the article, this was worth sharing: Publish or Panic.

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GUEST BLOG POST FROM DEREK STAFFORD, LUGHNASSADHBOOKS.COM“The biggest challenge today for independents - even more than the Borders and Barnes & Nobles of the world - is competing with Internet sales.” - East Bay Business TimesMain Street merchants have been looking for someone to blame because their sales volume is down. They have blamed the big chains, they have blamed the Internet and the

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I was wondering last night, as I tried to pare down my Alibris inventory (gasp-to below 500!) why the pricing service is so poor. Competitive prices and Amazon minimums are usually a week behind- that is to say the competitive price I see today, is in many cases the competitive price from last week (relative to Amazon). Given the great open source information that is available from Amazon web

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One of my favorite business magazines, Inc., has a great E-Commerce Starter Kit free reference. This would be good for new online booksellers or for anyone who started their business on the fly and didn't have a lot of time to research some of these issues.

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Entrepreneur has posted ten tips to help your online business succeed. I found most of these were relevant for online booksellers, even if they do not have their own site.

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Ebay announced that the format of item pages will change. Preview the new look.

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Thanks to a loyal reader (ehem, former editor JH) who pointed out today that we forgot to mention our birthday.Cheers to Bookselling Online, who turned 1 year old on February 26, 2006.

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Just as I was about to whine about the slowness of things around here, I receive a jolt... and again as it was nearly 5 months ago, it came from Abebooks (see: Wow... Abebooks Acquires Bookfinder.com. The Book Standard and the San Francisco Business Journal both reported today that Abe has acquired seller tool Fillz (stories linked, not main sites).While I could certainly find a multitude of

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I love inspiration. Great entrepreneur/small business magazines are always full of inspiring stories that never fail to get me motivated and inspire new ideas. Entrepreneur recently posted an article profiling millionaires who built their companies from within the home. I know many of our readers own home-based business, so I though this would be a nice addition to today's posting.

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An argument can be made that one should spend just as much on security for an internet business as for a retail, brick and mortar, location - if not more. However, some operations are not large enough to permit anything more than basic security. Never really even thought about security? You're not the only one. Auctionbytes has posted a great article to get you thinking about security for your

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Barnes and Noble CFO, Joseph Lombardi, recently spoke regarding online sales for the company. During the speech he reported that sales were just below the industry's projected growth of 10% per year. The fact that B&N is falling short of PROJECTED growth numbers is unbelievable. First of all, the statement is misleading because while 10% was projected, the industry undoubtedly grew at a faster

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By any stretch, December-January was a good time for online booksellers. Alibris reminded us of this by informing its sellers of 30% growth in January. There is no doubt there has been some chill in online sales this past week, mostly due to the drop in textbook sales. Nevertheless, it should be a good time for booksellers to catch their breath and immediately begin planning for the next push.

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Biblio wants to be your first choice when buying books. Booksellers on Biblio.com already benefit from reciprocal discounts and our unique CashBack program. For all purchases you make through your Biblio Bookseller Member account from February 1st through February 28th, you will receive an additional 1% (one) percent in CashBack. That is 5% on all Biblio.com purchases for the month of February.

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Biblion, a UK-based listings service, is currently down noting "major problems with our servers." Launched in April 2000, the site has been growing at a fairly good rate since that time. Subsidiary, Biblion Auctions, remains up and running smoothly. What is especially worth noting, however, is the last line of their short announcement directing users searching for books to AbeBooks. While this is

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IOBA recently declared its LACK of independence by taking its membership recruitment to the Alibris discussion board. It order to maintain its postings on the Alibris discussion board, the organization's representatives chose to compromise its independence and bow before Alibris defer important questions of shipping In a blinded zeal for increasing membership, it has neglected to uphold a basic

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Searching for used books on Google? Here are the first page results (non-sponsored listings):(1) ABEBooks(2) Bookfinder(3) Alibris(4) Powell's(5) Amazon(6) Bibliofind(7) Fetchbook(8) Used book search(9) Addall - used(10) Used Book Central

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