Use Shopping Cart and Payment or external shop.
This can Membership to the online version.
Shopping cart
User can choose to add / remove Products to a Shopping Cart
User can redefine values such as Quantity for the products.
User can define a shipping address
User can select several payment methods
User can save his card for later order
User can save his shopping card as “master”
User can send his card to other users with out sending personal data
User can participate on promo and rebate events through entering alpha numeric codes
User can show a card as wishlist
User can have multiple cards
User (Admin) can define accepted currencies
User (Admin) can set individual or global card limits
User (Admin) can define maximum and minimum Initial order value
User can see shipping costs
User has to accept Shop Terms prior ordering and card creation
Book price calculator (paper, quality, colors, type of cover etc)
Payment
User can choose which payment method will be accepted, Credit Card, PayPal, Community Currency.
Auctioning
User can post classifieds, tasks or projects to market and Auctioning will allow to find pricing.
User can moderate an auction.
User can choose different types of auctions such as, Ebay style biding or “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction”
User can terminate, start or extent an auction. User can use external auctioning system (eg. Ebay) for auctioning.
User can add interfaces to other human resource networks such as http://vworker.com.
Shared Earnings
*Only a single Author
*Collaborative (Barthernet)
** Shared By Matrix
** Shared By Contribution by Author
** Shared By Rating
** Shared by 3*3 Matrix (Product) from the above
Community Currency
User can define a community currency. This currency can be used to achieve either shares on real monetization or to gain credits which may be converted to votes or credibility. Also Community Currency can be used as a fixed value within volatile currency markets. Using an Internal Measure Unit will allow to preserve the internal community’s value estimation on content while still allow to convert from/to “real” currency.
Sales Channels
User can add sales channels such as Amazon & google.books (via ONYX feed?). If sales channel are selected and book is “pushed” to this eg towards Amazon
User can choose which sales channel his content will be sold at. One option is Amazon.
Tools
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONIX_for_Books#Overview (see also: Nielsen ONYX submission guideline PDF)
- openlibrary.org
Managing Power Ads
Online Publishing House - Promotion
Interesting links
- YouTube's interview by O'Reilly of Simon Lipskar, President of Writers House in regards to the suit of the DOJ over Apple's alledged E-Book Scheme
- Random House announcement that they switch to the a more open business model
- Literary Market Place
Donate, Wish list
user can choose to accept donations or gifts from a wish list.
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