Posts Tagged books
BookAse - Online Book Price Comparison Portal
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on February 3rd, 2010
BookAse is an online book price comparison portal which helps you get best deals on books by offering you a comparison from major online book stores across the world.
The website looks pretty ordinary and the navigation is really simple from a casual visitor’s perspective.
There are many portals on similar business model; our recommendation to the promoters would be to add a social touch to the application.
Iglooo – Compare Prices and Buy Books from Online Book Stores across India
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Latest Startups, startups on October 1st, 2009
If you are looking to buy a book from online bookstore, we would suggest you to compare the prices at Igloo first. As the website compares across the famous online vendors excluding Amazon, it is worth a try.
The website’s navigation and design is pretty simple. Even the search seems to work well, the only issue being that they miss out on grouping similar title books under one head. For buying, they are redirecting you to the core vendors so there is not a lot of confusion there.
We can suggest the promoters to bring in the book reviews to make the website richer.
Booksprouts - An Online Community of Book Lovers
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on March 13th, 2009
If you’re a book lover who has had a difficult time finding new reading material or people to connect with, Booksprouts may be a great way to find new material and get engaged with other readers.
Booksprouts - A Online Community of Book Lovers
Booksprouts is a site that allows you to join or create book clubs, share discussions and swap books.
It introduces a concept called Book Choices to help book clubs agree on what to read. This automatically create and organize online discussion spaces for each book.
How do I create a book club on Booksprouts?
Click on the ‘Create a Club’ link on the menu on the site. Fill in your club details and you are done. If you haven’t registered as a user yet, then you’ll need to register and activate yourself as a new user.
More Features on Booksprouts
There is a “Popular Book Clubs” category that provides an enumeration of the clubs that have gathered the most attention and garnered the most followers so far.
Another key feature of BookSprouts is Book Choice. Book Club Leaders can start off a Book Choice but club members can choose the Book they want to start a discussion on using an easy voting process.
Members are free to nominate a particular book and that gets highlighted. Once all the nominated books are gathered, club members can then vote for their Choice Book. Once a Book has been declared the Choice Book, club members can then discuss anything and everything about the winning book.
In spite of BookSprout in beta stage, its able to get too much media attention lately, as it offers amazing features for a book lover.
FriendsOfBooks - Online Book Rental Library
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on February 13th, 2009
FriendsOfBooks.com is for all book enthusiasts who can now rent books online and get it delivered at their doorsteps for free. All this comes with really affordable subscription plans.
FriendsOfBooks biggest rival would be LibraryWala who are in the same business and have gained widespread popularity after choosen in the shortlisted names of Hottest Startups organized by Tata & NEN.
DailyLit - Read Stories in Short Installments via Email and Feeds
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 24th, 2009
There are so many like us who love reading stories in short stints, especially when we read them on our computer or mobile screens.
As the problem arises, so does the solution. This problem is now being tackled in a totally innovative way. A new service ‘DailyLit’ lets you read entire books in short and customized installments. These will be sent to you by email or feeds (which can be read using Feed Readers).
Their service currently offer over 1000 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis. It includes bestselling and award winning titles, from literary fiction and romance to language learning and science fiction.
DailyLit - Read Books Online by Daily Email and RSS Feed
You can opt to receive these packets (installments) on your Blackberry and iPhone too. This makes you read on the go. You can even schedule the delivery of these packets.
You can read each installment in under 5 minutes and if you have more time to read, you can receive additional installments immediately on demand.
How Does it Works
Getting started is really easy. If you’d like to be a part of the community, you can register for a free account.
If you just want to read a book, there is no need to register. You can browse books by title, author or genre. When you find a book you like, click on it to go to the details page.
The details page will display all information related to total installments, the cost, members ratings and reviews, etc. Here you can opt to subscribe for yourself or even request to gift this book for someone else.
When subscribing for yourself, you can choose how frequently, what time and the mode through which you want to receive your installments. Enter an e-mail address and hit submit.
More Features on DailyLit Website
You can discuss your favorite books and author on their twitter groups and forums.
The gift service offers you to send books to friends, with installments starting on any date you choose. Each installment can be sent with a personalized message written by you.
visit website - http://www.dailylit.com/
Giventake - Online Barter Mall | Buy and Exchange Products And Services
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on December 4th, 2008
Barter system was followed in the pre historic era, Establish something like this in this modern HiTech world is quite an innovation itself. The main concern from our point of view is how would you trust in the person whom you are exchanging servies or products with.
There should be some background information and history of exchanges that person have done can be showcased to help establish trust. Also a security sort of thing can help in establishing the trust.
BookCurry - New and Used Textbooks, Biographies, Children’s Books, Science Fiction and Cookbooks
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on December 1st, 2008
Bookcurry.com is an online book store for shopping new and used books. It lists thousands of new, rare, and out-of-print books and multimedia at low prices.
Pothi - Self Publishing and Print on Demand in India
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on November 14th, 2008
Pothi.com provides a print-on-demand (POD) platform for all kinds of self publishers in India. They cater to authors, NGOs, Organizations and anybody who has an idea or content with a niche or small audience and cannot be served by traditional publishing.
LibraryWala - Online Magazines and Book Store in India
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on November 8th, 2008
Librarywala is an online library and book rental service, offering members over 8,000 paperback books. The site is a solution for readers by providing them books at low cost, at their convinience. The books collection offers the latest bestsellers as well as thousands of titles no longer available at your local bookstore or online retailer.
OurOwnBook - Anyone Can Write | Users Become Co-author of a Book
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on October 27th, 2008
OurOwnBook is a user driven writing community based on the revolutionary concept of Collaborative Book Building, CoBooBu. It brings together users who wish to write in an interactive and collaborative form to develop a storyline which would be published as a book.
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