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The Bookseller Digest
Abebooks.com 
The Avid Reader January 2006
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Dear ,
It's Summit Week! Over 30 booksellers will spend the day with us at the Abebooks offices this Friday - find out what we'll be up to in this month's digest. Plus, get tips on uploading book photos, tell us your bookselling stories, and add yourself to our new "Frappr" map!

Sue, Shaun & Jordan
Your Sales & Account Management Team

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Highlights:

  • Summit 2006
  • Tips: Uploading Photos & Updating Your Shipping Matrix
  • Free Shipping
  • Brodart Deals
  • Upcoming - Rare Book Room


  • SUMMIT 2006
    Booksellers from across North America will visit our offices in Victoria this Friday, and we have quite the day planned for them. Check out our Schedule of Events, list of attendees, and more. [Summit 2006]

    Customer Support Tip:
    Uploading Photos
    We've launched thumbnails in Search Results as a new permanent feature. Pictures are an easy way to increase buyer confidence in your listings. [Read More]

    Customer Support Tip:
    Updating Your Shipping Matrix
    Abebooks is the only marketplace that lets you set your own shipping rates and speeds and reimburses you 100% for the shipping fees charged. You can update your matrix to reflect your costs, or use your matrix as a promotional tool. [Read More]

    Free ShippingFree Shipping - Now Available in the UK
    We've expanded our Free Shipping offering to include UK buyers. It's easy for you to join this successful program. [Join Now]

    New Listing Report
    Next week we’ll be launching a new Listing Report that you can use to synchronize your local copy of your inventory with what’s currently online. The report includes information such as your BookID and price, and because it’s in tab delimited format, you’ll be able to import it into other programs to format, sort and edit as you need. Check the Announcements on the forums next week for more details and instructions.

    Holiday & Textbook Recaps
    The 2005 Holiday campaign was a huge success, with over 4 million customers visiting the site. Our Winter Textbook campaign has also been successful, with significant visitor and order increases over 2005.

    HomeBase 3.0 - Now in Alpha
    HomeBase 3.0 is now in its first testing stages. This "alpha" version is being test-run by a small group of booksellers who will help us work out any bugs and streamline the final product. If you would like to be involved in any future product testing, please join our Bookseller Advisory Group.

    Exclusive Offers & Discounts From Brodart

    Our friends at Brodart are offering Abebooks booksellers exclusive discounts on all book care products. Learn More

    Stay Up-To-Date on What's Selling
    The Book Standard, a one-stop online information center, is offering Abebooks booksellers free subscriptions to its weekly Retail Report e-newsletter, which contains bookselling news, industry profiles, and sales-trend analysis and data with weekly updated bestseller reports. [Subscribe Now]


    Tell Us Your Stories!
    Abebooks.com will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year and we will be creating an online gallery of real-life stories from our booksellers. So if you have a story about how bookselling has changed your life, let us know. [More]

    Upcoming: CAMEX & London Book Fair
    Abebooks will be exhibiting at the upcoming CAMEX fair in Houston, TX (March 5 - 7, George R. Brown Convention Center, Booth #1817) and the London Book Fair (March 5 - 7, ExCel London, Booth #F805). Be sure to stop by and say hello if you are in the area.

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    Great turnaround time! I placed a book order on January 3/06 from Edurne Williams Bookseller in Hampstead MD US to be shipped to Nova Scotia, Canada. The order was processed Jan. 6th and arrived Jan. 17th even though the expected delivery was late in February. I was very happy to see the order that quickly. Great job! - C.M.

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    Security & Trust
    Tip of the Month
    Always make sure that your payment has been received before shipping a book. If you use Abebooks Payment Services, you can ship the book as soon as you’ve confirmed the order... [Read More] [View Security]
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    Community

    Poll - Summer Book Fairs
    Will you attend any consumer fairs this Spring or Summer?

    • Yes
    • No

    List Your Bookstore on the Abebooks Map!
    To celebrate our upcoming 10th anniversary, we have set up an online interactive map that will list our community of booksellers, and their locations, around the world. Make sure customers can find your store - add yourself to the map! [Learn More]

    Rare Book Room - Authors From Around the World
    Our next Rare Book Room feature will highlight rare & collectible works by authors from different countries around the world. If you have a book you would like included in this feature, please e-mail us at features@abebooks.com.

    Roundtable Event - February
    Our Summit guests will be answering your questions in the next Roundtable event. Post your questions Feb. 9 - 11.

    (Remember that if you cannot make the chat, you can read the transcripts in the Roundtable Event folder in our Forums after each event.)

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