About Bookseller Link

Bookseller Link was conceived, designed and developed by husband and wife team, Malcolm and Yin-Fun Allaway, who run Maweb, a website development business in Kington, rural Herefordshire. Whilst Kington is is home to one well-established antiquarian bookshop, a number of smaller booksellers can also be found within the town and surrounding area. Kington is also close to the amazing book town of Hay on Wye - a second hand book buyers paradise

Bookseller Link grew out of discussions with some smaller second-hand book sellers who were looking for an easy to use, low cost way to sell their books on-line. The booksellers told us they wanted their own updateable website to promote their business and have easy to manage online stock lists with a simple ecommerce payment gateway.

Some of the comments that came up during the discussions were:

• We have to keep re-submitting each book every 7-14 days when we sell through Ebay.
• ABE, Biblio, Amazon etc. seem a bit daunting when you are not a full-time book business
• Sites with a fixed postage price policy regardless the size of the book means we often lose money on postage
• Commission charges mount up on most sites - we seem to pay a lot in commssion and get very little for some books!
• It would be fantastic if I don't have to pay to list each book or pay commission on each sold item
• When a book is sold I need to know which box or shelf it is stored in.
• I need my own website to promote my business but I've got a very small budget

We listened to these points, looked at what is already available and decided to release Bookseller Link. Our early users tell us that it does what it sets out to do - provide an easy to update, distinctive e-commerce platform for smaller booksellers.

As a web development business, Maweb has designed and programmed a number of varied websites for clients around Britain. Sites developed vary from smaller business brochure websites to large, bespoke e-commerce systems. If you are interested in a tailor made website outside the Bookseller Link system to promote your business, get in touch with Malcolm Allaway at Maweb to start the ball rolling. Some examples of Maweb's websites can be found on the Maweb portfolio page at www.maweb.co.uk/portfolio.php.

Get in touch using the form on the contact page if you are interested in finding out more about buying in to the Bookseller Link system.