A marketplace for independent bookshops
Making the advantages of e-commerce accessible to small bookstores!
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the brand
Believing that bookstores still have a leading role in a society's cultural and literary access and enrichment, RELI (Independent Bookstores Network) was founded as an association composed of bookstores from all over Portugal with no ties to networks and chains of large publishing and bookselling groups.
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the challenge
Through its intervention with society and public authorities, RELI seeks to protect and support small bookstores that are having great difficulty coping with the crisis in the bookselling market, which compromises their very existence.
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the story
In association with Imprensa Casa da Moeda (INCM), RELI counted on us to develop a project that would make some digital resources accessible to small booksellers and draw readers' attention to new possibilities for acquiring books, other than from large publishing groups.
In this sense, we developed the new RELI marketplace platform, a website where all associated booksellers can upload their catalog and receive order and reservation requests.
Through an intuitive interface, each bookstore can enter information about the books they have available for sale (new, used, or even rare editions), with advantages at the consumer's point of contact.
The user can enjoy 4 ways to search: new books, used, rare, or through title search, where they will find all the results from booksellers who have the searched title available.
With a few clicks, the user can formalize the reservation or order of the book and arrange with the selected bookstore for the collection date at their respective store.
In addition to searching for books, the user can also check which independent bookstores are closest to their location – seeking to increase the visibility of small bookstores among consumers when they select bookstores to purchase their books.
In a simple and easy-to-manage back-office solution, RELI, in association with INCM, brings public access closer to small bookstores and their varied and, often, exclusive catalog.
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