The goals will also change as the times do, and as the needs and desires of the people who patronize the site become evident. I think it's useful for people who are buying books, especially books they already know they want. I question its utility as far as letting people know about books that they might like or need, but don't know about. Books that someone felt passionate about but didn't look like money-makers. The web is a tool and tools can do good or they can do harm, all depending on how they're used.
Customers expect it, our vendors expect it . . .
The site was launched in August, and total sales have only been a few hundred dollars. A local web design firm donated their work, which made the move more feasible. Barron said the Internet's nature of parity is the biggest benefit to being online. Setting discounts aside, all booksellers are potentially equal. Every bookseller can truthfully say that it has access to 2 million titles, or 4 million titles, or whatever, as long as it can mount the data on these titles and make it available to the customer.