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1. Book Alliance To Challenge Google, by Patricia Resende, ECN Magazine, 8-24-2009 Google is being challenged by Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com in an attempt to stop the Internet search giant from moving forward with its Google Books project, Resende reports.
2. Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple, by Adam L. Penenberg, Fast Company, 7-1-2009 Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to the music industry, Penenberg writes, as Amazon could phase them out completely, treating them as the ultimate middlemen orphaned by a new technology.
3. Knopf Puts Some Muscle Behind Swedish Thrillers, by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal, 5-28-2009 Trachtenberg describes a book promotion campaign that includes print and mass transit advertising, websites, social networking and microblogging sites in-store promotions in big bookstore chains.
4. Move Over, Amazon? Google Aims to Sell e-Books, by Olga Kharif and Douglas MacMillan, Business Week, 6-1-2009 In the coming months, Google plans to begin selling online access to electronic versions of books, Kharif and MacMillan report. The titles will be available for viewing on any Web-enabled device, be it a cell phone or a laptop.
5. Online Book-Selling Tips: Beating the Bushes for Books, by Frank Fortunato, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 4-6-2009 Article explains the ins and outs of online book sales. Smaller operations can't compete with Amazon, B&N, Borders, and Walmart on new books. But closeouts and remaindered books, flea market sources, library sources, thrift shops, and book auctions can be low-cost sources for smaller sellers.
6. Internet Encyclopedias in Flux, by Reid Goldsborough, Information Today, 4-15-2009 Goldsborough compares and contrasts online encyclopedias Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica; notes Columbia Encyclopedia, like Wikipedia, a free resource.
7. Amazon Quarterly Sales Jump 18%, by Jonathan Birchall, Financial Times, 4-23-2009 Birchall writes that the online retailer's robust performance is sustained by its ability to offer prices on goods that compete with conventional discount retailers, plus free shipping, and the comparatively prosperous demographics of online customers.
8. In Need of Some Amazon Group Therapy, by Cynthia Crossen, The Wall Street Journal, 2-9-2009 Crossen describes how Amazon makes it easy for on-line critics to award books they've read from 1 to 5 stars, noting that many readers resent that they aren't permitted to give zero -- or even negative -- stars.
9. Inside the E-Commerce Strategy That Could Save Borders, Part 2, by Thomas Wailgum, CIO, 8-4-2008 As the struggling book retailer makes a massive effort to win e-commerce success, Wailgum explores if it can capitalize on any late-mover advantages.
10. Amazon's Exclusives Rattling Other Retailers, by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, The Industry Standard, 9-9-2008 Amazon has the exclusive first look at Bob Dylan's first video for "Dreamin' of You," a song from his upcoming album. The exclusivity of the video is part of a bigger trend in Amazon marketing, Aleo-Carreira reports.
11. The Plot, and Profits, Thicken: Online Book Selling Tips, by Frank Fortunato, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 7-28-2008 The author offers tips on selling used books online. Finding stock is key -- remainders, closeouts, flea markets, thrift shops, garage sales, etc. Many casual eBay sellers don't research the values of the books they sell. Condition must be described carefully. Pricing for most books can be found at bookfinder.com or addall.com. Recommends selling in the "Three As," ABE, Alibris, and Amazon. Explains pros and cons of selling on eBay.
12. A New Chapter in Bookselling: Social Networking Sites, by Frank Fortunato, Ecommerce-Guide.com, 6-24-2008 After an overview of online book sales, the author focuses on bookselling sites that use social networking to sell books. He highlights Bookrabbit.com, Goodreads.com, LibraryThing.com, and Shelfari.com. Concludes with tips.
13. Borders Launches New Web Site, by Mike Sachoff, WebProNews, 5-27-2008 Bookseller's new site will allow customers to shop online and will also be available on in-store kiosks for people to use while they shop. The Magic shelf gives customers the feeling of shopping in one of its stores.
14. How Amazon Could Change Publishing, by Sramana Mitra, Forbes.com, 5-16-2008 Discusses how the book publishing industry is unfair to authors and is outmoded. The author sees Amazon as positioned to become the retailer, marketer, publisher, and agent combined taking 65% of revenues, offering 35% to the author -- more than the $1 to $1.50 per book authors currently make.
15. Visual Bookshelf Taps Into Social Networking, by Practical eCommerce Staff, Practical eCommerce, 2-25-2008 Visual Bookshelf is a thriving online community that exists entirely as a widget application within Facebook. It has attracted millions of users through its viral appeal, and makes money as a common affiliate of Amazon.com.
16. A Success Story: Step-by-Step Online Bookseller Guide, by Frank Fortunato, ECommerce-Guide, 11-19-2007 A primer for beginners on how to build an online business selling books through commercial book listing services such as Alibris, Advanced Book Exchange, Biblio.com and Amazon. With pros and cons of the various services, and resources for getting started.
17. Will Amazon's Gadget Kindle eBook Sales?, by Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine, 11-19-2007 Amazon released its Kindle e-book reader, a 10-oz device that can store up to 20 books, and uses the EVDO cellular network to wirelessly connect to Amazon. It retails for $399. It has 180 MB of internal storage available to the user. Amazon will use a proprietary e-book format. Competing products like the Sony Reader won't be able to access Amazon content. Best sellers are $10, magazine subs will be $1.25 to $3.50/mo.
18. Amazon Does Downloads, Sort Of, by , Business Week, 9-17-2007 As long as digital music and e-books come with heavy restrictions on how and where consumers can use them, the market will be limited, explaining why Amazon has done little to sell books, music or movies in digital form.
19. Baby Boomers drive used book sales, by , Internet Retailer, 7-11-2007 AbeBooks.com's survey of 2000 used book merchants found that 79% of the used book sellers that sell online at their site are 45 or older, 50% have an advanced degree. 60% of the merchants sell only online. 33% read between 5 and 10 books each month. AbeBooks.com has 8,000 booksellers it sells through.
20. The Dollars Are In The Details, by Alice LaPlante, Forbes.com, 12-7-2006 Description of the business plan of AbeBooks.com.
21. Buy.com hunting in the Amazon: Part II, by Ryan Carrigg, Compete, 10-30-2006 Studies the effect of Buy.com's campaign that offered a 10% discount off Amazon's book prices. While Buy.com doubled its usually visitor overlap with Amazon.com visitors, the conversion rate did not improve. Studies promotion awareness and effectiveness.
22. Bookhitch.com Your Gateway to Books, by , , Provides an alternative way for authors to advertise their books by topic category or title. Free listings can be upgraded with cover and longer description for $19.95/yr. Provides clear link to your sales page. ISBN optional.
23. Amazon.com launches print-on-demand program for publishers, by , Internet Retailer, 5-19-2006 Amazon.com Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary BookSurge LLC are launching a new print-on-demand program designed to help book publishers sell lower-volume titles more economically.
24. Students buying more textbooks online, by , Internet Retailer, 4-4-2006 Students buy 23% of textbooks over the Internet, up from 16% in 2004, according to the National Association of College Stores. Factors included: price 61%, friends' recommendations 21%, and professors' recommendations 18%.
25. Site Critique Series: Meet Our New Guinea Pig, by Devin Comiskey, ECommerce-Guide, 2-15-2006 ScoutingBooks.com is an established, moderately successful webstore that has done well by establishing recognition (and good search placement) in a clearly-defined niche. The one-man operation depends on Miva Merchant shopping platform, and faces challenges with inventory control, shipping, and record integration.
26. Abebooks turns the page on European expansion, by , Internet Retailer, 2-1-2006 Abebooks, online since 1996, is now relying on international expansion, organic growth, and site upgrades for growth, rather than third-party seller agreements. It has a major e-commerce presence in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
27. Google's Great Works in Progress, by Burt Helm, Business Week, 12-22-2005 Describes Google's process, progress and expert observations on the company's big "book experiment" in scanning books from publishers and universities for access by the public.
28. Google's Latest Plot Twist, by Burt Helm, Business Week, 10-31-2005 Discusses concession in its plans to digitize books by search giant Google, which is being sued for copyright infringement by major publishers.
29. Second Looks At Google Books, by Demir Barlas, Line56, 11-18-2005 Barlas believes that Google Books is nothing more than a kind of On Demand, a paradigm that is succeeding very well in e-business, as evidenced by Apple's 30-second preview option for its music service iTunes.
30. Amazon.com to Sell Individual Book Pages, by Hillel Italie, Biz Report, 11-4-2005 With its new Amazon Pages service, Amazon.com Inc. plans to let customers to buy portions of a book -- even just one page -- for online viewing. A second program, Amazon Upgrade, will offer full online access when a traditional text is purchased.
31. Selling Books Online: Book Listing Services vs. eBay, by Frank Fortunato, ECommerce-Guide, 9-15-2005 Update on the state of used book selling online, with a detailed comparison of the pros and cons of major book-selling sites (Amazon, Alibris, Advanced Book Exchange) and the eBay auction service.
32. Selling Books Online: Book Listing Services vs. eBay - Pt. II, by Frank Fortunato, ECommerce-Guide, 9-28-2005 Overview of listing-style book sales sites where small operators can list their inventory for sale alongside thousands of other sellers, with descriptions and pricing of services offered by 8 major sites (including Alibris, Amazon, ABE and Biblio.com).
33. Selling Books Online: Book Listing Services vs. eBay - Pt. III, by Frank Fortunato, ECommerce-Guide, 9-29-2005 How to sell books online through eBay, a sales environment suitable for small sellers with limited inventory, aiming for quick sale and rapid turnover. Specific advice for listing products to best advantage, writing appealing descriptions, setting realistic expectations.
34. Small Firms Find Success Online, Too, by Ellen McCarthy, Biz Report, 8-18-2005 McCarthy reports on success of small businesses that take advantage of the Internet age by lending a monthly stack of books to customers who place their orders online, and charge a fee for the service.
35. How building virtual book stores pays off for eCampus.com, by , Internet Retailer, 8-10-2005 eCampus.com is finding a new and growing source of income opening virtual book stores for smaller colleges, private high schools, and virtual universities which can't afford to operate a conventional store, mostly colleges with less than 3,000 students. eCampus pays participating schools a percentage of the transaction on both new orders and buybacks. Books are shipped from the company's distribution center in Lexington, KY.
36. MusicNotes plays a happy tune with 1 million sheet music downloads, by , Internet Retailer, 7-20-2005 MusicNotes carries a library of 40,000 digital pieces of sheet music which it sells for $4.95 per download. It notifies 170,000 opt-in e-mail subscribers of newly added titles weekly. Digital sales represent 70% to 80% of all web sales vs. paper sales. The sheet music business is a $1 billion market. They average 50,000 downloads per month.
37. Amazon.com Sitting Pretty 10 Years Later, by Elizabeth M. Gillespie, Networking Pipeline, 7-5-2005 A decade after Amazon's launch, industry experts say it is well positioned to maintain a firm grip on its title as the undisputed e-commerce leader.
38. Judging a Book by Its Contents, by Ryan Singel, Wired, 5-5-2005 Discusses Statistically Improbable Phrases, the result of a new Amazon.com feature that compares the text of hundreds of thousands of books to reveal an author's signature constructions.
39. Bookstore Finds Inspiration With Muze, by James Maguire, ECommerce-Guide, 1-7-2005 An established book-and-mortar book store made the transition to online sales easily and with low risk by partnering with fulfillment provider Muze (which creates infrastructure for the iTunes Music Store and others).
40. Losing What Counts: The Swamping Phenomenon, by Walt Crawford, EContent, 6-23-2004 Crawford says you should be aware of swamping, since it can affect almost any search process and reports on a test drive of a book search.
41. Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power, by Robert D. Hof, Business Week, 8-2-2004 Top executive of Amazon explains the company's brand building strategies, including delivering exceptional service, word-of-mouth, publicity, invention and community, which includes allowing negative customer reviews.
42. Cover Story, by Cheryl Pruett, iMedia Connection, 8-11-2004 Pruett gives examples of how publishers such as Random House and Simon & Schuster use online partnerships and promotions to create author buzz and sell books.
43. The Brave New World of Book Buying, by Reid Goldsborough, Info Today, 12-1-2003 Presents opposing views of new features recently introduced by Amazon.com that make book buying even more enjoyable, convenient, and economical while incurring disapproval of some authors and publishers.
44. The Great Library of Amazonia, by Gary Wolf, Wired, 12-1-2003 Wolf describes using Amazon's new archive of 120,000 fully searchable texts and growing. Says "The more specific the search, the more rewarding the experience." Notes that mass scanning has grown increasingly feasible, as little as $1/book.
45. Booking Business, by , Washington Business Journal, People want to buy books and movies on the Internet. As people like to rent movies online, says renting books is a logical development. Describes the business model for Booksfree, noting its difference from a public library and e-company NetFix.
46. The Best Search Idea Since Google, by Steven Johnson, Slate, 10-24-2003 Explains how Amazon.com's new "search inside" feature works, allowing full-text searches of over 120,000 books in its new digital archive.
47. Customer Focus Keeps Amazon Experimenting, Bezos Says, by Helen K. Chang, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 10-1-2003 Once an online bookseller, Amazon.com also now sells products from third-party vendors, who account for 20% of sales. Bezos says he strives to keep the brand elastic by making the customer regularly re-evaluate Amazon.com.
48. Amazon Will Pay Dearly for Free Shipping, by Peter Eavis, TheStreet.com, 9-29-2003 Says large online retailer Amazon "appears to be returning to its bad old habits" of offering free shipping and sustaining large losses as a result. Amazon spokesman defends the program as a means to drive growth.
49. Overstock.com cuts book pricing to a flat 25% below Amazon’s prices, by , Internet Retailer, 9-2-2003 Overstock has been experimenting with pricing their books at a fixed percentage below Amazon.com's price. Since Feb at 20% below, for Sept 25% below, for Oct 16% below. Such pricing has built sales volume rapidly.
50. Web-wise, it's Harry, then Oprah and John, by Toni Fitzgerald, Media Life, 6-24-2003 Reports that the fifth Potter book was setting an e-commerce record for number of items delivered one day. Says that Oprah's club spurs Web traffic for her book club selection. "Top 25" tables of sites.