AZARDI Content Fulfilment Bookstores

Overview

Using AZARDI Content Fulfilment (ACF), publishers of all sizes can instantly create an bookstore with e-Commerce that delivers digital content to AZARDI Readers on any platform, everywhere. Your content is under your control. Your content is delivered securely to the various reading platforms.

The AZARDI Content Fulfilment business model does not take any part of your book sales revenue. It is a low cost service that manages the sales agreements you make with your customers.

AZARDI Content Fulfilment is ONLY about delivering digital content Online, to the Desktop, to Mobile devices and as watermarked EPUBs. There is no provision for the sales and delivery of printed books.

The business objective with AZARDI Content Fulfilment is to empower publishers of any size (excluding self-publishers) to sell their digital content directly to their readers with their branding.

E-commerce to consumers always has complications and can be demanding. Infogrid Pacific operates a number of services to reduce the complexity so you can focus on publishing books.

Types of Bookstores

AZARDI Content Fulfilment can manage books for the following types of bookstores

Static Site Bookstores

These are suitable for small publishers with up to around 50 books which do not need a significant level of catalogue organization. We provide a 2-3 page static site customized to your branding requirements and all the services such as user account management. The only thing that is not provided is e-Commerce. you have to register your own PayPal account. The only payment gateway available at this time is PayPal.

If you are a specialist publisher dealing with vertical market topics this is probably the best option.

Catalogue Delivered Bookstores

You can create and deploy a full bookstore using the Sachmo framework. The software is open source and completely free and can be used by anyone to integrate with an ACF account for up to 500 books. For more than 500 books a full AZARDI Content Fulfilment license will have to be purchased. 

The APIs are already built into the application. This means the deployment work is customizing the look and feel and integration with the payment gateway of your choice.

This option is effective for small collections of books through to hundreds or even thousands of books.

Your Bookstore

You can use the AZARDI Content Fulfilment APIs to integrate with your existing website or bookstore using our APIs.

If you have more than 500 books a full AZARDI Content Fulfilment license will have to be purchased.

Summary

This Unit explains the various options you have in setting up and operating your own e-Retail bookstore