Welcome to the first post on our new blog, where I hope from time to time to keep you up-to-date with the good things on our network of web sites.
I say “network” of sites, because the structure we are developing involves not only our main bookselling site but also a number of information-rich smaller sites on specific topics – mostly linking back ultimately to books, some of which we hope you will want to read. At this stage these are:
- BrunleaBooks main site – in two parts plus an eBay store
- New books, of which we do not hold physical stock but display selected titles in convenient groupings, and which you can then buy through our affiliate relationships with Amazon and other companies.
- Secondhand (and some new) books which we hold in our own physical shelf stock and which you can buy through our own secure checkout process.
- Our eBay store (no longer functional, Oct 2008), displaying a substantially different selection of books (although there’s some overlap with the main site stock list).
- the-Churchill-file – On this site we are building a collection of articles about the life and work of Sir Winston Churchill. He is best known as the British leader during World War II, but had many other facets to his life, including his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Books both by and about Churchill are featured in the-Churchill-file, which is planned to grow to around forty pages, each on a distinct aspect of his life.
- Read-the-World (now moribund as a separate site, Oct 2008, but may be revived; the logic is, however, retained on the main site) is an exercise aimed at bringing together books on many different aspects of countries and regions of the world which in most conventional bookstores are kept apart. For example, if you wanted to know something about China then in a large bookstore you might have to go to several different floors of the building to find the Travel section, then the current affairs shelves, and then maybe the History department. By a series of links on our web pages we now make it easy to move from one to another. The “Read-the-World” site is a front lobby for this scheme, intended to encourage people to read about places and cultures far distant and widely different from their own, to explore their histories and understand more of their current situation.
Take a look now at some these new developments, and I’ll be back with more in the near future.
Yours bookishly,
- David Murray -
