advantages of online bookstore?
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1) You don't have to leave the house to buy a book, and believe me, I have to go a long way to buy English language books (in Russia).\n\n2) You can quickly and easily search the stock that is available and find out what they have and when you can get it.  you can also get reviews of the books and see what other people thought about it.\n\n3)  You can easily see what other books the author has written if you liked another book by that author, and order them.\n\n4)  You can get books that are sometimes hard to find at bricks and mortar bookstores, and even purchase them used and save a few bucks.\n\n5)  You can sell your used books, sometimes for a relatively high percentage of original value.
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In my experience, well known bookstores have gotten the information.  If they didn't have it, they would find it!  Give one or two a call.
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Bring in popular authors for readings and question/answer periods, particularly authors.\n\nMake sure your window displays feature popular books as well as quirky, youth-oriented choices.\n\nAdvertise on the local university/college campus and consider putting a 10% off coupon in the newsletters at local K-12 schools.  Get the kids involved by saying the discount is for people under 18 only, so the kids have to come in with their parents.
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you can go thru a company like LuLu that does print on demand.  Basically you upload your work to LuLu's site and you or whoever your selling to orders it off there site.\n\nSince they "print on demand" you dont pay any thing to publish (nor do they provide any editting or formating services) and the price of the book covers the cost of one by one production.
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The only one I can think of is cost - it would be cheaper to type or write one by hand and photocopy it; however, that would be a false economy as even a black&white laser printed brochure would almost certainly increase sales by more than the cost difference.\n\nThere may be advantages and disadvantages to particular avenues of IT - e.g. using InDesign vs Publisher (although the first costs more up front, it will save you your money if your brochures are printed externally; prepress costs will be much lower - in fact, most print shops will actively discourage or refuse to deal with Publisher output. Once you're using a print shop, your cost per page will be much lower than printing on a typical colour laser).
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Definitely put down online sales because it's more general, so it sounds like you have more experience with selling different products and different customers.  You can put down E-bay as a place you have sold on, or any other places.
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Your college/university bookstore
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Advantages of electronic buisness would be a good one.
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If you're talking about e-commerce on websites I think a disadvantage is the difficulty in satsifying customers.  Viewing product details, shopping carts and checking out all have to be very intuitive and if they're not you could lose a customer very easly.  I think customer satisfaction is much more important (and easier to lose) on an ecommerce website than regular one.
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Convenience and time savings.\n\nIf I can store my grocery list on the company website, and just check the items I need and have them delivered...great!\n\nIf I can put in a standing order, and have items shipped with some frequency, so I don't run out...better!\n\nIf the company automatically offered the best prices and gave me a discount as sales were run, I would be a customer for life!
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Advantages -- it can be private, so you avoid the Internet \ntrolls.\n\nDisadvantages -- it's easier to waste time because it's more friendly; you get used to those horrid abbreviations ("u r" instead of "you are") and they become part of your regular online chatter.
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Amazon.com is a good place to find book reviews and buy them.\n\nEbay.com is a good place with a limited no of books
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Why don't you try to give info about your product online by making website and if you also want to sell online i suggest you to try TajByte Business Plan which will give you online website, online store and free shopping cart if you plan to sell online or offline.\n\nSee there website at www.tajbyte.net
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With correct marketing, good customer service, and good products, yes! Some products sell better than others online.\nBooks are probably the easiest products to sell online. Musical instruments are probably one of the most difficult to sell, because you cannot hear how they sound before buying. But even though, I am sure that musical instrument sellers still have a huge online audience.
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you can download e-books for "free" ;)
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Depends what the online store would be selling as to it's usefulness!
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The benefit of a book is that most likely the topic you are going to choose to do had already been undertaken by another individual, and they usually have some background and insight. Books allow you to go to a primiary source which is more 'accurate' <--andI say this on eggshells usually than secondary sources. On the internet there are way too many sources for just one topic, and often people will give you biased information that is more opinionated that fact based!!!\nGood luck..