EDEN INTERACTIVE — the company behind eden.co.uk — have this week announced an online sales solution for independent Christian booksellers/retailers: christianbookshop.co.uk
The service is being offered free of charge to retailers and offers them a customised homepage that opens the door to more than 75,000 Christian products — including ebooks — from Eden. All customer service and order fulfilment will be provided by Eden with a commission paid to the bookseller, somewhat akin to Gardners’ Hive Network but dedicated to Christian resources and without the need to hold a trade account with the supplier.
The site is now open for retailers to register an interest and is scheduled to go live to the public on Monday 3 June. A collect-from-store option is planned for the Autumn of 2013.
An interesting idea, certainly. It should appeal to small, independent bookshops. Maybe, if they extended it, it might appeal to anyone blogging for Jesus too.
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