Bookrabbit Alive & Hopping
Bookrabbit
Alive & Hopping
There have been many changes at Bookrabbit.com and now that the dust has settled, what are Bookrabbit’s plans ?
After various adjustments to the e-commerce model, including the move to becoming an Amazon affiliate, the Bookrabbit site should become financially sustainable.
Some of the new features that Bookrabbit users can expect to see in the very near future are:
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Bookrabbit Calendar
An event calendar that will allow users to add historical events, famous battles, author’s birthdays, book events and the like. You will be able to start discussions about these events and link a book or book category to them.
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Bookrabbit Groups
Members will be able to create groups in Bookrabbit. Not just a reading group but any kind of social group. You will be able to create private or public groups and have your own threaded discussions as well as add group events to the calendar system. Independent Booksellers will even be able to link this to their bookseller profile where they can display their stock.
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Bookrabbit Map
Integrating with the Google Map system, members will be able to place map pins on the global map that are linked to books, categories, events, profiles etc. This could be a whole new way of looking for relevant books – for example if you go off travelling around South East Asia, you would be able to look at the Bookrabbit map and find books that are related to the region. The possibilities are endless, you could link a famous battle from the Bookrabbit Calendar to the actual site of the battle itself on the map… perhaps you run an archaeological society and you plot on the map sites you have been involved with and create book categories that are about those very sites !
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Community Recommends
Now that Bookrabbit has been running for a few months, we have enough data to generate book recommendations based on books that have been reviewed and rated by the community itself ( as opposed to just what books have been sold or books we would like you to buy ).
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Top 10 Lists
Bookrabbit will have a dedicated section showing statistics of every nature… from users with most bookshelves to books most talked about…
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Community Empowering
Bookrabbit will be appointing a team of community moderators and super moderators. As well as to acknowledge their valuable contributions to the community so far, this is to give them more power to help the Bookrabbit community grow.
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Bookrabbit Games
We have several games in design which we intend to release on the bookrabbit site. One of them will be a book quiz engine, those of you familiar with the ‘Neverending Movie Quiz’ on Facebook will immediately know how that will work. The other 3 games are ‘top secret’ at the moment but they will be ‘multi player’ in nature and will involve creating poems and short stories co-operatively.
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Delivery Charge & Going Green
Okay, so we have removed free delivery for all books. However we are offering free delivery still on orders over £10. Reasons are fairly obvious, in that despatching books that cost £1.99 means we are selling the books at a loss… too many of these and there would be no more Bookrabbit site… But you can look at this another way – it does mean a reduction in paper wastage: packaging, despatch notes etc. Incidentally, Bookrabbit are ‘green’ conscious, for every server that we use to host the Bookrabbit site, a tree was planted to help towards neutralising the carbon emissions created by the server.
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Last but not least…
Obviously we would like the Bookrabbit community to grow and to help us to do this we are going to be running a scheme whereby users getting 5 or more friends to register on Bookrabbit using the Friend Inviter facility will be sent a free book ! ( Terms & Conditions will apply )
