One more new online book store has joined the wagon – SimplyBooks.in. This portal has been developed by eMinds Knowledge Services.
Here, you can get books based on Art, Biography, Computers, Food, Craft, Drama and more. You can also order CDs and magazines here. They have stock of around 1000 books from leading publishers and sold more than 500 books in just 2 months. Online book ordering process is quite simple at SimplyBooks.in.
SimplyBooks majorly attract audience from South and West India. eMinds claims to offer good discounts and fastest delivery.
SimpylBooks.in is expecting Rs. 1 crore revenue in 2010-11 and looking forward for funding as well.
Portal Design:
• Site design is neat and clean. But I feel there is a room for improvement.
• Surprisingly, Facebook fan page is placed at book detail page instead of Homepage.
USP:
• Offering CDs & Magazines as well
• Search books by author, category, title, ISBN no, Publishers etc.
• Free book delivery across Indian in just four days.
Indian online books market is expected to grow 35% each year and it has huge potential to attract more and more book lovers. Online bookstore is new and upcoming trend in India and to monetize this huge market potential, online bookstore owners start developing their strategies in right direction and offer some more products related to this industry, they can also start offering used books, Magazines or so.
