IndieCommerce

The IndieCommerce Institute, which debuted in Chicago yesterday, drew close to 70 booksellers who took part in a day of intensive work focused on building a better website and developing e-commerce.

ABA is working with Bluefire Productions to create a version of the company’s popular BlueFire Reader app for IndieCommerce stores selling Google eBooks™. 

To promote indie bookstores and their ability to sell e-books, Penguin is creating customized easels for stores selling Google eBooks™ via their IndieCommerce websites.

Scott Nafz, the senior customer service rep for ABA’s IndieCommerce program, assists bookstore members in all matters related to their e-commerce websites.

Customers visiting ABA member stores’ IndieCommerce websites can now log in using their Google Accounts.

Here’s an action kit of marketing ideas and strategies that can help spread the word that indie bookstores are alive, well, and very much open for business, both in-store and online.

ABA is extending the registration deadline for the few slots left for the IndieCommerce Institute until Wednesday, July 20, or until the three educational tracks are filled, whichever comes first. Stores that are already signed up for the ICI may now register additional staff.

Recent moves by Amazon.com to circumvent sales tax equity legislation offer indie booksellers an opportunity to market their affiliate programs to recently fired affiliates, who are searching for alternatives.

Here are answers to frequently asked questions about the first e-reader integrated with the Google eBooks™ platform.

An Internet Taxation Forum organized by Local First Utah featured panelists on all sides of the e-fairness issue, from those in support of both state and federal solutions to those who oppose requiring remote retailers to collect and remit sales tax under any circumstances.