Caravan for Booksellers
The Caravan Project can help you:
- Expand book sales to a wider audience looking for alternatives to hardbacks and paperbacks
- Increase your ability to offer a larger inventory in a wider variety without adding an inch more of shelving
- Interact more efficiently with your distribution outlets
- Eliminate unsold inventory and the hassle of returns by more closely matching supply with demand
- Continue to nurture the unique, personal relationships readers value in an increasingly faceless marketplace of exchange
Brick-and-Mortar Bookselling
The ambiance and personal qualities of the corner bookshop are a cherished tradition in our culture. Booksellers have coped with the evolving marketplace since time immemorial, and now they want to serve the needs of their media-savvy customers who prefer to read books in alternative formats.
From the smallest store to the national chains, the digital revolution has to be recognized. Committed though they all may be to the value of providing serious non-fiction, booksellers can’t overlook their customers’ preferences and power of choice.
How Caravan Helps Booksellers
Hundreds of Booksellers and Library systems around the country now have the capacity to sell Caravan books and the thousands of other books being created by almost every major publisher. Any bookseller with a website can easily be brought into the digital age to deliver books and audio to consumer.
The Caravan Project works closely with publishers to help them convert traditional formats into digital and large print formats. We have the dedicated support of the Ingram Book Group, Ingram Digital Group and Lightning Source, Inc,. for fulfillment, content management, digital delivery and print-on-demand services.
For smaller booksellers who remain more traditional in their selling methods, we provide extensive support, visibility and marketing materials about the benefits of the project. In our demonstration phase, we will work closely with booksellers, Ingram and BookSense.com to refine our working model for bookstores to sell digital content and connect with Ingram as our reliable fulfillment resource.
The publishers currently participating in The Caravan Project represent a prestigious group of trade and university presses that publish quality non-fiction for serious readers. This is a market many media and digital content providers ignore.
These publishers have selected a unique collection of books for the demonstration phase of Caravan and produced them, at minimal cost, in a variety of popular alternative reading formats.
E-book Formats
- Adobe PDF Download
- Microsoft Reader Download
Audio Formats
- Audio Download
Print Format
- Large Print Paperback (shipping required)
To help you better understand your customers’ digital book needs, we have provided an explanation of these formats and their associated hardware.
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