Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Antbo and Prolibri - Books databases without Fortune

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http://www.boersenblatt.net/351523/

We recall that the Berlin sales platform "antbo" among the books recently tested here databases surprisingly had done well. My positive opinion is shared by colleagues revealed.

antbo Why was still not high? Is not it simply gets that a pleasing designed, technically perfect portal for many years hinkümmert pass on? be

booksellers with a good memory to remember a brief but highly dramatic conflict between me and antbo. I felt at that time the choice of name as totally impossible, in every way and completely embarrassing crazy, implored Mr. Sisk, the head, with tongues of angels, to change the name (and found this opportunity tail of spelling errors in his approach and usability pages).

The external errors were ironed out quick - but the name was changed anything. Sun floats the "Entenpopo" along with all the other I discovered alliteration and impressions of the "Antbo" name still on the database. Sisk, unfortunately, that virtually all tactical opportunities, against which, as we saw in the test to distinguish moderate Prolibri shame, has not noticed, is a tragedy special kind

I would still want to develop in the new situation, with pleasure, a strategy that could come up with the Antbo the market. But this should be changed completely botched the first of the name. Sisk against recalcitrance on this issue is probably not arrive. Too bad.


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Our colleague Lower Rhine, in which no hope of improvement, has unfortunately gathered a Hofcamarilla around, he seconded the stupid stupid on his wrong path in the name issue. Mr Heuberger disappointed me very much - he has recently confounded the citing and comparing any text with what he once owned entirely - with the common sense of an experienced big-city antique dealer. And Mr Plocher us know now nothing to offer better than the far-fetched varying an extremely weak and also taken out of context quotation Fontane. On the merits, but there is still fog on the Lower Rhine and elsewhere.

There are now ten years since I had introduced the idea of a cooperative education in the first round before Hess than 250 booksellers and propagated in parallel and without reference to the American Tomfolio. The still older British companies in this direction, to which we added later Plurabelle were made aware, at that time, in Vorgooglezeiten, entirely unknown. It is - that prepares Prolibri still nightmares - that proved my K ind, which is what there is. And their children know, you look particularly critical.

three deadly sins, the young, hopeful cooperative partly before and partly during the Berlin celebrated inaugural meeting. Against all three, I struggled desperately in the Hess-round all documented pretty and verifiable:

1) the violation of a democratic, open culture of discussion, instead the continuation of a horrible graft, small group education and Intrigiererei, in part, that must give you, by the cross unfortunate, hopelessly outdated legal provisions in the cooperative movement founded

2) the shift from a low-access policy in favor of a psychologically and tactically disastrous, elitist high initial stake claim brought by our colleagues demands before that the trust that they first should develop later and may - was during the ZVAB over time may be necessary, but would then have to be changed immediately,

3) the choice terrible, embarrassing, ridiculous and struntzdummer name - with the GIAQ began .

Where we are on topic. Who mad so, GIAQ as a term for a large lay down general self-organization in the bookseller, which still be trusted with other stupidities. I shoot because not only in the Lower Rhine mist lowlands (the now reach up to Cologne), as well as colleagues Kretzer et alii seem to have two left hands in some respects.

But above all this: The

database, and thus the soul of the cooperative, now renamed into " bookseller. How that is done in detail, if "only" to Internet address or full name of the database or part thereof - is always the legally permitted. The consequences will be extremely embarrassing. This can but each . Imagine Some quite good work (such as the shop system and imaging) is endorsed by and probably eventually destroyed. For error, exchange, embarrassments in the N Amen - election or election address today, as we know, deadly . There is nothing worse for a sales and marketing tool!

The reasons are summarized here once in a nutshell:

It must be stopped, meaning "antiquarian" PARTICIPANTS is in the minds of most, the average T in the market. Since the rights of competitors of sales database must be protected as well as the rights of the buyer = Users, but not any other people, there is only one criterion for testing the admissibility of a name:

* thinks Wie (advertising psychologically, how f ü HLT) of the participants in the market for old books about it?

here is now that "Books" is a single company for the consumer. With "Rare" combines the personal line, even more so by S til a house (this aspect was not even mentioned), the responsibility to a certain degree of care, a much larger S ecurity was for the buyer (also on been discussed yet).

So if I in a book database, a portal shop, then have I "with 200 or 500 or 1,000 bookstores do, just as often so the uncertainty and unpredictability of ever new, ever on the other hand bookshops. Will I take this into account - well, my responsibility.

But what must be done in no case, is that I am a database of their unpredictability and uncertainty of the number of participating bookstores disguised by the use of the term "Books".

The deception is likely, possibly fraud, but certainly a violation of fundamental rules of the competition.

Because it is quite clear, the "new" name in a huge choice of Prolibri, embarrassing disaster lead. Those responsible have been warned, after they can no longer excuse.


surprising nor an indication of a remarkably lucid contribution to the industry trade journal:
http://www.boersenblatt.net/350742/



The deception is due encarta image. It is simply upon request to be removed immediately.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Orbit Starter User Guide

Blue Wonder Sleuth - Website Critique Bilger




http://www.fonsblavus.de/

pleased Mr Bilger us with a good website.

Preamble: Every antiquarian works so hard in thought, word and works with planning and developing its own website. Therefore one should not imagine bookseller sites, and then collapse the editor block again, as in the stock market today Journal happen, but the design and content also discuss and evaluate. These critical meetings can only be beneficial. I would also encourage the opinions of colleagues, if one comes forward to the laudable idea to call them, make some detail. E RIGHTS colleagues interviews are always extremely helpful, we all like to read. But it should not be an elaborate written opinion, then wirs rather boring - Stormchen his antiquarian indicator was an unfortunate time as well paralyzed with it.

Beasley could very well, he has a conciliatory voice on the phone. But back to Bilger's website.

The blue of the page with the circular image is beautiful. Unfortunately, Bilger makes the mistake with which we usually also RFMeyer to ägern - he does not consider that one on the front page would like to look at a glance everything. The most beautiful picture using nothing, if I can just see it in parts. How awkward to affect the good idea by the urge to scroll down.

Folding menus at the top of the page are graphically clear, I do not know if I can click on "News" only "Book of the Month" and "measuring" should, or "news" itself is "news" only the title to the underlying Klappmenu or concealed in him an independent information? - Menus are bunks are available with or without their headline. to describe complicated, you see it, then you understand immediately what I mean. So it should be clarified graphically. Anyway, I would warn against too many gimmicks. I st it be better to clearly indicate what is on the website all offered? Do I necessarily "hide" part first, so that the reader is as surprised when opening Christmas calendars - - which may well be behind the door?

"News" should somehow be important. A New Year's greeting, so nice it may sound, is not "currently". - The color very good scan of the prominent (very beautiful), "Book of the Month" has, unfortunately, highly artificial and wrong-headed show by the whim of colleagues, only the front cover and back on a plane to do. The back is really the nature not flat with the front cover, if I only show the front cover and spine, then he is "really" an angle in the picture. - Here I am long since come to the shallow placement of the entire book, which looks more natural - if indeed the second, rear cover anything in addition Informative brings. At least, as here, the appearance of the book is raped.

The descriptions I ask of me that I as a reader, not the whole mess of - excellent content! - Description in a throughput of Control to the head. Through this terrible bad habit is a whole catalog of that ominous vultures, which for me is the "collective catalog of the Quack," have been ruined. we ask for some paragraphs , even better at different type sizes, etc.

This applies as a result, for the displayed under "Measurement" copies.

Anyone who is caring and competent investigations and background stories to bring his titles ready, just which would have to bring himself to an optically-clear typographical presentation. lead deserts seem sobering.

"Catalog" has the "Please click on the catalog" tactless. Something to solve graphically different, not so childish. An antique book website is not a male-egg game.

Sorry, unfortunately opened then, who would have thought the "catalogs" that are difficult to handle, awkward online crazy Manuscript of a catalog, which you must scroll down. This is not good! Older and more dignified term, to the addresses of fellow but hate this most awkward of all forms of presentation of catalogs. Here is necessarily announced a rethink. It is a matter of a cobble or two hours to get out of the printer's manuscript a well-to-use real small here.

The tab "Fons Blavus" behind the then "about us" to promote the above occurs already mentioned problem of ambiguity of hidden sub-register again. - The personal introduction text is extremely sympathetic and restrained , something I'm usually at antique shops do not live normally. Maybe even take back a bit, about the "care" of customers, but otherwise - - nicely! So be it!

It is a matter of taste in a deeper sense, if at all and when I link directly which colleagues. You do not know - these are now "friends", "Fair fellow," "bookseller, with whom I work," "... I would recommend" - or what? Please explain. - The bibliographic links are, sir, something heruntergehudelt. That must be better thought out and are tailored to the type of goods offered. Otherwise rather not take.

Mr Bilger escapes under "contact" but not to the temptation of a large portrait "winning smile" position. This could decorate in this form, the industry trade journal, or Vienna-style Wetscherek, O God, the youth of "I work with books." Such psychological tricks should refrain from it.

The change mentioned little things to pop up on the bad habit of the customer PDF catalogs on the head, nothing in my view this website as bright spot right in the misery of other colleagues or . Total score would be 2-3, even without the PDF monster quite a good 2 +.




Disclaimer: Web pages that are being sold to customers on the Internet may be subject to critical appraisal. Anyone who feels personally offended, may I ask for reworking of individual passages, I will do what is possible. But in the interests of clients and the booksellers themselves can and should it, as before giving way in the future, web site critiques.

The photo is part of the city of Blaubeuren blue pot in which we are grateful for the use of possibility.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

How Much Is A Color At Jcpenneys Salon

our sales problems on the track - a self-experiment. Part I




To get reliable data about the difficulties in this period average older books to sell, I decided 14 days to submit to me a self-experiment. The only way I can control my actions and define standards.

I sorted out my largely uncontrolled stock I have in a large old building, in basements etc. accumulated in 30 years, all should permit which apply to:

* Subject theology , both confessions, both the subject of theology and popular piety in (under exclusion of the treatise literature and religious poetry)

* Period 1800-1930

* Average BookFinder / ZVAB under 50 €, but for 10 €

I spent the last two weeks of Advent to the task, by watching the more than 20,000 unordered books of all subjects were, in which some in three or four rows (narrow and wide Sten- boards, sat Sapienti). Half dead, covered with dust and moldy, I re-emerged from the chaos on.

The number of titles in terms of theology was now manageable, such as 5000 titles , no more, if only because other subjects dominate in my buying area have a tradition, as are as trivial novels, mostly from 1860 to 1920, infinite Militaria series, brochures, and non-books ( which I am very happy today), paper, paper ...

From the book types and topics ago I observe now in "my" theology is a positive balance, which is not least so that I could never buy a closed theological library, but in presbyteries of three denominations in the buying area'm well aware.

The next steps I undertook are, of course all colleagues familiar

* alphabetical order by first letter, then select a letter to the first treatment, I chose "B", and here again the breakdown of "Ba" (sometimes up to "Be"). It was roughly 120 titles, always limited to the period 1800-1930.

* query all the tracks (it was hardly the way multiple tracks while ) in book finder. I advise all colleagues to look in the parenthesis, in addition, prices are not in ZVAB, but in book finder, for many reasons, which we can discuss another time. The main reason is of course the more realistic price Manageable to * down * down, but in old or titles is also difficult the very brilliant performance of the variant titles there very helpful. Book Finder is faster now, thank God. be

* elimination of all titles that be more than about 3 times offered may also expensive at 4 or 5, and / or the in average less than about 12 Eur lie.

remained after this operation, of the 120 titles ba (-be) still 43 left. - Reason for the elimination of the cheap and / or frequent track the consideration has been that I do not press down the results by a taking in of the multiple and the book title would have.

useful is the title transfer to System Wiesler is also for newer titles, I must reject this method of quality-as well as lack of time for older titles. That brings the one hand, too many time-consuming mistakes, on the other agrees with Wiesler the quality is not (always). So I put her on a number of such tabs in Firefox, directly usable land title ("ISBD files") provide great books from databases. For about 2 / 3 of all databases you can extract it, of course, one must often look for the entrance to the ISBD laboriously. But once he has been found and are quoted, goes pointed pretzel baking.

In the case of the older theology was (in order of usefulness) VThK , Then KVK, here of course, only the GVK-access and excellent Baden-Württemberg-catalog model, etc., while Bayern faster in terms of title extraction is a place of horror and German Library in Leipzig (we speak of the retrospective conversion of older titles) and State Library Berlin dashed through unspeakable Titelschluderei. Furthermore, we can speak a some other time.

Thanks primarily affecting the well-kept, quite surprisingly good VThK I could from all sources contain a total of 40 directly APGVis of 43 titles , of course, to Wordpad, to get rid of some pretty tricky formatting to all cases.

Then I sat, for every Title of hand (read asterisk later easiest) to create the CSV file the necessary asterisk, in my case, before or between

Author * Title * Description * * year number * Price * Note * Keywords

which I subsume under "Year" place, publisher and year, "Description" page number and Einbandart under "Note" means the condition of the book. To fill the "Keywords" I renounce for the time being, for lack of time. I present to you the finished transfer file, ready for transferring to ZVAB, sometimes in a section before:

"Author ~ Title ~" Year "~" media key "~" Description "~" number "~" price "~" Note "~" Keywords "
"Bachmann, Philipp:"~" Nun aber halte ich Dein Wort : ausgewählte Predigten / von Philipp Bachmann. - "~"München : Kaiser : 1932. - "~0~"OLn VIII, 194 S."~"tb01"~13~"schön erhalten"~
~"Liber duodecim prophetarum : Textum masoreticum accuratissime expressit, e fontibus Masorae varie illustravit, notis critics confirmavit ... / Hrsg. von Seckel Baer. - "~"Lipsiae : Tauchnitz, 1878. - "~~"Hln. X, 102 S., Einheitssacht.: Prophetae minores"~"tb02"~12~"sehr klarer Druck"~
~"Liber Genesis : Textum masoreticum accuratissime expressit, e fontibus masorae varie illustravit, notis criticis / confirmavit S. Baer; praefatus Fri Delitzsch. - "~" Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1869. - "~ ~" Hln. VIII, 96 p. "~" TB03 "~ 12 ~" clear print "~
" Alonzo L. Baker: "~" The hope of the world. "~" Pacific Press, Brookfield 1926th "~ ~" OLN. 384 pages "~" tb04 "~ ~ 19" front joints loosened. - Impressive style illustrates the Pentecostal and tent mission in the USA "~
Philip Balzofiore" ~ "Life History of the Venerable Servant of God Anna Maria Taigi: (1769 - 1837) / Philip Balzofiore, übrsetzt by: Wimmer, Boniface. 2, unchanged. Ed 1873rd "~" Regensburg [ua]: Pustet, 1873 ." OBroschur XVI, 134 S.: Ill., from the Ital. trans. "~" tb05 "~ 24 ~" brochure unopened yet, last leaves little bent "~

The asterisks have been because the ZVAB wants, here simply converted to Tilden ~, the program offers the opportunity to automate.

The next steps for the treatment of the CSV file I made with " OpenOffice CALC " (freeware), I warn explicitly of the expensive Windows spreadsheet program. - The first bit tricky transformation of the CSV table into the database txt program is also required for computer-illiterates like me not magic. One must learn to once a week, then it sits.

Then I scanned * Every * track with a very fast-A3 scanner (an ancient Epson GT-15000).

After suffering in cheaper A4 scanners that had brought me to a frenzy, I have been working happily with this machine. She has quite a stubborn Ebay Used price of 400-500 € (new unspeakably much more). This money I have never looked back. Bite into this bullet, do it! Used is sufficient, since these large machines for a hundred thousand or more scans are interpreted.

Many colleagues fear the demand of the databases that match the description of the scans or photos must be associated with the book number. Here again an hour should be recognized where you learn the correct insertion of the first signature boot scan and, more importantly, the automated Herunternummerieren in the book numbers' column of the OpenOffice SCV. Decrease

With Tinypic (free) the images in seconds down. Sies not even try with Irfan, much too complicated. Tinypic!

So now we have ince a very important condition - the size, which is expected to apply exactly to all elderly and / or difficult tracks like:

RELATED TO FINALLY RECRUITED = USED TITLE:

Sort AZ with fine screening a min
pricing / discarding about Book Finder: 3 min (This includes about 3 look-up curves, since about 2 accounts, one remains)
scans including preparation and follow-1 1 / 3 min
soliciting the Grundtitelei 2 min
asterisk-onset 2 / 3 min
entry of price, Einbandart, Condition 2 min

SA. 9 1 / 2 = 10 minutes per definitely adjusted title

This 10 minutes is a pretty horrible, as far too high a reference. My feeling tells me that this is the whole point. Whether I delegate all the work (who else can really do about that?) And then has to pay the wages, or if I'm sitting on the box itself - is because at least come out a cleaning woman pay for me?

The median sales price of the goods in this way, gross self-experiment is about at 24 Eur

Yesterday I entered the 42 tracks in ZVAB, Abebooks and are now awaiting the result. I suspect that it is verheerendausfallen.

A lot of the usual relativizing arguments ("is yet again different from any colleague") off I think I have by careful experiment. Now everyone can check the reference for himself. And old theology as an area at least still in the lower mediocrity of popularity , provided it is screened carefully, have not done well as ego.

is the result, in my estimation, be about 2-3% selling titles - and the unprofitable our work under current market conditions occur then clearly evident.

If it should be, then I can make more using the standards to which I gave myself an investigation of the market.

This will be the second part of the small self-test. We need to get out

, why we get rid of medium contain one of the shameful way in so small measure . There are reasons. Know we are, we can think of concrete measures for boosting sales.

first but I need the results of this small essay, which I'm glad you put in the picture.




For the Photo "self test" I thank Landsbytossen, have borrowed out of ego.

High Cervix, Creamy Cm Af Due?

mist at the


http://www.boersenblatt.net/351386/template/b4_tpl_antiquariat/



An antiquarian from the Lower Rhine, whose name we withhold mercy leads us in the comment No. 14 with brilliance in front of what it means to be unrepentant and incorrigible, and, as if this were not enough to construct ythen cheerfully M and scandals in talking.

http://www.boersenblatt.net/351386/ # comments

The once united together here for booksellers RFMeyer and Mulzer, otherwise rather critical distance, have tried for two days with sheep patience in new twists and in several contributions to him explain the problem, which can be seen in a choice of name, which amounts to T ä Subtlety in Internet commerce and has been in advance of a legal clarification suffer miserable wreck.

At least we think so, and we also have to justify it. Editor Beasley suggests delicate that He here also say it this way, question mark sees on the horizon and in any case clarification is needed.

What makes our lower Rhine, not'll discuss colleague? Is he even an on the subject? Does he think for 5 cents on this issue?

Far from it. Instead, he constructs a cloudy myths structure of the co-conspiring against anonymous people who assumed he Björn Biester tolerating dark evil, or at least "poor" media supply Schmutzer.

That may keep it as he wants. But it would be a question of the rational of discussions, to refer to a problem, the two colleagues with him much trouble and time have unraveled and explained.

Remember - ythen M and Verschwörungsbramabardisierungen help clarify important issues in anything.


The beautiful photo (Nebula on Niederrheim) is U. Hid. We thank you for the possible use; image is simply upon request to remove.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Record Propellerhead Reason Difference?

side note

http://meyerbuch.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/nur-ein-paar-marginalien/

http:// meyerbuch.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/mein-name-ist-hase-nicht-igel /

http://www.boersenblatt.net/351386/template/b4_tpl_antiquariat/



With side view of the current debate in the financial newspaper may I suggest, two discussion threads clean apart.

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First, the legal point of view. Far more important than the question of the Internet address, a bit confusing and not always happy with new German and "domain", and the competition issue is *



in connection with the business name and address / the portal. This topic is as old as the newer legal system in general and for over a hundred years it would be for a clear set of rules.

The business name must be true in terms of multiple viewpoints. One of the most important is that both the nature, the A of the industry rt by the chosen name must be displayed properly, as well as its G r ö ß e.

I must write not "fresh fish restaurant when I thaw frozen fish from Alaska , I can not call it "Major German carrier" if I have to run only a tricycle cart in city traffic. This violates the term "Antiquarian" for a database / portal the demand for truth and clarity on the A rt of the trade.

One can hindrehen pettifogging with something so that it is "apparently" fits. Legally, reasonably water resistant but it would get back only if it, as I had planned in the "German bookseller, would be associated with a better organization of the antiquarians, that would just take that name. Only then could we get through it, but even that would be like RFMeyer Koll told me quite legally shaky.

On competition, to complete this item, whichever is the naive, spontaneous assessment of the average consumer. Quite well of the average layman people. Especially for but is the difference between a "Rare" and a "database-portal" very important. We should just on this track no further discussion, it would be pointless. The professional layman would get by "Antiquarian" for the database / the portal ä Noise t. And so the name has died.

is right in the domain of international law after some initial problems and confusion clearly

*** general competition law filed through the legal domain.

This is only logical, even if it may hurt if I give a domain or business and even use must not private simply because the parent would thereby violate competition law. Conclusion: I ask desperately, on the siding of the competitive name-basic question not to struggle on. The case is clear.


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We still need to complain about a lack of purely formal discussion of professional culture. I am really shocked with what naivety as far in the field of antiquarian twisted structures, cumbersome things, blunders have been staged.

A professional forum must be placed on the legs with a few basic rules. In addition to the general accessibility is a system of rediscovery and archiving older posts (retrieval) as well as ease of use, clarity, etc., not even the easy task of a neutral editorial and supervision. I personally was the old system of Hess-round like best, we would now speak of a "mailing list". Each review comes immediately into the mailbox of each participant, or that did not mate Hess can offer, after you read all posts in one place. So I would like to think a kind of Yahoo or Google group today.

Here is the financial newspaper refused purely technical. Otherwise, we must, admit it in the next sentence, editor Beasley a largely neutral and rational management of his department bookseller. I think it is foolish to put him under "partiality".

However, there are currently (still) no reasonable common professional forum. As long as the missing, there will be always the impression that at Prolibri / GIAQ "gemauschelt, internally and decided not think highly of more open discussion culture. I will not repeat, we need a neutral, universal, open, sophisticated platform to discuss our professional issues. This is really almost just a technical question. But it must be done.

ideal carrier would be the stock market club and a good moderator, Mr Beasley. Given the chaotic and grubby image that we have the general booksellers Booksellers Association (Coll Hohmann has kindly suggested), but that should not be possible. If the Xing group to reform? I've got deep doubts. A modified "Antiquarian indicator" could be carriers of a good career planning forum for all, but has Coll Stormchen breath for a second attempt?



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