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| viaLibri welcomes UKBookworld |
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We are pleased to welcome UKBookworld.com to the list of multi-dealer websites that are included in our search results. Their 340+ booksellers, all of whom are located in the United Kingdom, will add another 2.7 million titles to the millions we already search. Libribot will also search them daily to find new matches for the permanent wants of all our registered users. We are equally pleased to announce that all the book listings from MareMagnum are now also being searched daily by Libribot. These two additions increase significantly the scope of material that Libribot can now find. For more information about Libribot please click HERE . |
| Announcing Libribot and other viaLibri Premium Services. |
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After an extended period of development and testing we are now ready to launch the beta version of Libribot™, an automated searching service that will continuously scour the internet to find new items that match your permanent wants. Just record your wants in the Wants Manager and Libribot will take over from there. Freshly uploaded listings on 10 major search engines (more to come) and the independent websites of dozens of individual booksellers are regularly scanned for their most recent additions. When new matches are discovered they are added to your personal catalogue of found items where they can be easily browsed at any time. If you are a registered user with wants already saved in the viaLibri Wants Manager Libribot may already be at work for you. Just click the tab marked "Libribot" at the top of the screen and you will find a catalogue of your latest matches. Libribot includes several advanced features that are not available from any similar service. A description of these features can be found by clicking HERE . The full power of Libribot is one of the benefits available to subscribers to our new Premium Services. Other benefits include an enhanced searchable Clipboard, inclusion of your website in viaLibri searches, and discounts on viaLibri advertising. More information about Premium Services can be found HERE . |
| How the Internet Moves Book Prices |
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Our good friend Bob Fleck at Oak Knoll Books has just written a candid and informative account of how he is responding to the current trend in book prices (mostly lower) brought on by the internet. We think it will be of interest to both collectors and other booksellers. You can read it HERE.
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| Major Enhancements To viaLibri Book Search |
Several months of development work are finished at last and we are now pleased to put on line an updated and improved version of our viaLibri book search tool. We hope you will like the changes we have made. Many of our new or improved features have come as a result of suggestions received from our regular users. Among them you will find...
It is now possible to eliminate from your search results most print-on-demand titles and other new reprints of older works. We have received many requests for this feature from users who were frustrated by search results for older books that were overwhelmed by repetitive listings of these inferior reprints, many of which are described in a manner intended to conceal their true nature. This optional filter can be activated by clicking the search form checkbox labeled "No PODs". The methodology we use to identify these reprints is as thorough as possible, but also requires continual updating and fine-tuning. If you use this feature and discover any items that escape our filter please let us know about them so that we can make further adjustments to improve the accuracy of our results. If you want to execute a search that also excludes specific names and keywords we have now made that easier than it was before. All that is required is to enter the term to be excluded into the form field marked "Exclude" and then check the checkbox corresponding to the fields where you want the exclusion applied. We have renamed the Search Manager to "Wants Manager" in order to more accurately reflect its primary function as a tool to save permanent wants for repeat searching. The new print-on-demand and exclusion filters can now also be incorporated into the wants that wants that you record using the "Wants Manager". But to make things even simpler, we now also include a button at the bottom of every search results that you can click to save your last search terms as permanent wants. (Additional major enhancements to Wants Manager are now also being tested and will be launched shortly. Watch this space for further details). Many books will now have illustrations embedded in their descriptions instead of appearing in the column on the right side of the search results page. The illustrations are also being displayed in a larger format with greater detail. We are now including books listed on booksandcollectibles.com.au. The leading Australian website for antiquarian books. Numerous other invisible improvements have been made to make searching faster, more reliable, and more accurate. If you notice any bugs that have escaped our testing please do not hesitate to bring them to our attention. |
| Browser Search Plugins for viaLibri | |||
Once a plugin is installed, it should be possible to select it from the list displayed when you click on the search box located at the right side of your browser. We would like to note that the addition of this feature came at the request of Matt Caywood, one of our users, who first created it for his own use and then generously offered the code for us to copy. The long viaLibri "to-do" list is now one item shorter. We are always happy to hear from our users with requests for features, even ones we have already planned. For this purpose, a contact form can be found under the "More" tab at the top of every page. |
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