If you are a publisher or a retailer, you may be considering creating a version of your website optimized for mobile phones. Don’t do it. Nine times out of ten I find mobile sites unusable, frustrating, and downright damaging to your brand. Unless you really, really know what you are doing stay away from redirecting [...]
I just noticed the addition of ‘Green Search’ to the Chapters.Indigo.ca website. Under the advanced tab, one can filter for only books that are FSC approved. I have no idea how long that option has been there but I assume it has been since the last site release before Christmas. A ‘green matters’ badge also [...]
So it is just after midnight December 15, 09 and as expected the switch has been flipped on KoboBooks.com. Shortcovers.com is no more. Indigo CTO Micheal Serbinis explains in a blog post “Kobo is an anagram of the word “book” and we think that it is a name that will appeal to readers around the [...]
Every year around this time the crew at Chapters.Indigo.ca release a new set of site features in anticipation of the holidays. Last year they launched their reader community. The success of that project is worthy of debate, especially after noting that the second quarter sales, released today, for online are down 19.8%. That excludes Harry [...]