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THE WORLD BOOK MARKET

We are an international co-operative of booksellers who believe quality of books and quality of service far outweigh quantity of listings. Collectively, we offer one of the worlds best and safest book-buying sites.

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FOR BOOKSELLERS

The World Book Market (WBM) is actively seeking new bookseller members to join our growing band of members.

WBM info for Booksellers...
WBM bookseller benefits...
Detailed list of WBM benefits...

MEMBERS' BLOGS

Pazzo Books, Boston MA

FRIENDS OF THE WBM

The Specialist Auctioneer is an exciting new buy or sell auction/listing site operated out of Denmark by Mike Bloxsome, a WBM Member.

WeSellUsedBooks is a growing database of book shops and other resources about used books.

These cover a wide range of software tools and resources, as well as acess to a sophisticated Helpdesk environment for technical support on issues concerning online bookelling generally (not just WBM software matters).

New software tools and routines are being constantly added to the bookseller software kit. A summary of the main software tools and routines a WBM Member currently enjoys, all as part of the fixed annual fee:

Your books and book pics listed on the commission-free WBM bookselling site
Your book uploads automatically forwarded to all your other listing sites
Your picture uploads automatically forwarded to all your other listing sites
Variable data onloads to other sites - different prices, text for each of your sites
A sophisticated and very powerful bookseller database to replace Homebase etc
A WBM-exclusive Homebase Converter tool (converts HB data to readable text)
Automated import routine from Homebase data into our WBM bookseller database
Picture Proofing tool: check and mark OK all your uploaded pictures online
Auto-Zap for wrong pictures: removes them from all your listing sites with pics
Multiple picture display (10 per book, with captions)
Picture audit reports: get lists of all listings with/without pics uploaded
Advanced Pic Audits: reports on books marked "Scanned" but with no pic stored
Advanced Book Audits: checks accuracy of your listings at other sites
ISBN verification and error reports/warnings on all suspect ISBNs uploaded
Data Insurance Package: backloads from the WBM restore all your data or pics
Private Website creation and hosting services for booksellers without one
Detailed and bookseller-useful data and statistics at Member Dashboard
Round-the-clock access to a skilled programmer and other tech support people
Access to the WBM's lively and wide-ranging Bookseller Forum

Each of the above-mentioned summary benefits (in the same listed order) is explained in much fuller detail when you click the link underneath. You can scroll down through the list until you reach the end.

Further and more detailed information on all these Member Benefits...

Complete Member List

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

We have a public-access Forum where we post news and views about the World book Market, to which anybody is welcome to contribute, or just browse.
Community Forum

MEMBERS' CODE OF ETHICS

All Members of the World Book Market have agreed to be bound by our Code of Ethics, which guarantees our customers the very highest levels of service and support. Click here to read our Code of Ethics.

THE LATEST NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERSHIP.

This section will be full of small tidbits provided by members. A nice grab bag of anecdotes, store events interesting book news...click here for all the latest

EXTRA STUFF

Preferred booksellers

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