Greetings Booksellers and a happy new 2010 to you.
 
My goal is to make this the year of enhancements to the WOB Website product.
The initial enhancement is a big one.
 
You will have to ability to remove the linkage between the website and Amazon which forces the use of Amazon Payments.
 
The data displayed for inventory will be only the data you upload. If I pull the data directly you’re your Amazon inventory then there likely will not be enough detail… but you are welcome to try and see how it looks.
 
Images will have to be either: Uploaded to the website, linked to by an image URL on the inventory data , or pulled from www.OpenLibrary.org .
I need ONE seller to test this. Please send me an email if interested. If everything goes well it will be available to everyone this month.
 
I also need a seller that already has a Google Tools account linked to the website that can do a minor test of a search engine sitemap.
 
In other news….
 
Please use the forums ( http://mb.whiteoakbooks.com ) for support. It can be done privately through the private message functionality. Support through email is very unreliable and leads to miscommunications.
 
If you haven’t already done so… create an account on the forums and subscribe to the Announcements forum. (and others that make sense to you)To subscribe to an entire forum open the forum and click on the ‘Forum Options’ link in the headers.
 
I will be creating a new thread in there with a list of expected future functionality and allow everyone to add their input on what they want to see.
 
I am also creating a thread on functionality that is added that many users do not know about.
 
As usual… please contact me if you have any questions/issues.
 
Andy
WOBBookSite

Quote from Stacks_o_Books on Feb 11^th, 2010, 10:17pm:

 
No doubt PrestoStore has gotten me motivated to get my non-Amazon linked version released and out the door.
 
I came across open library last december when I was trying to find an image source for Google Product Base.  I didn't use it then because I didn't think Google would like image URLs outside of the domain being uploaded.
 
Like you I have looked at Broker and Muse and they are out of my companies reach pricewise.
 
I've found several sources for images (including dvds) but most had limited licenses and no hot linking so I would have had to download the images.
 
I would have prefered a single source that had DVD and CD images but it is better then nothing.
 
If I would have released my new version without linking to OpenLibrary the 1st question I would have gotten was why can PrestoStore  use them and not WOB so in it went.
 
Andy