PORTSMOUTH, NH -- 11/08/07 --
Port City Web, LLC (
www.PortCityWeb.com), an
award-winning, full-service website design, development, hosting and
marketing company, today announced that it has completed many significant
upgrades to Washington, D. C. based Wonder Book's online commerce website,
located at
www.wonderbk.com.
Wonder Book now has 1.5 million books for sale online, which represents an
increase of 1 million books for sale online through their website. The 1
million new books for sale online complement the 1/2 million used books for
sale online through the company's ecommerce website. Additionally, the
design of the website was improved to help improve the user experience and
reflect the uniqueness of Wonder Book. "Wonder Book has one of the largest
selection of used books in-stock and ready for shipment," said Chuck
Roberts, President of Wonder Book. "We wanted to expand our offering to
include new books, and we wanted to change our website to work more like
Amazon's website."
"Key to the success of this project was integrating the data feed of over 1
million books from Baker & Taylor, the nation's leading supplier of new
books to retail book stores," noted Erik Crago, President and CEO of Port
City Web. "We integrated the feed from Baker & Taylor with the website
shopping cart, and also pulled in the feed from Wonder Book's in-house
inventory management system. The end result is just over 1.5 million books
for sale on Wonder Book's ecommerce website -- all in one place, at one
website. This was a mammoth task to complete, and it shows the technical
depth of my staff. We might be small in numbers at 12 employees, but we
pulled off a project that most people would only trust to a 45 person web
development firm," said Crago.
Following the standards of Barns & Noble, Amazon and Borders, the Wonder
Book website keeps the user at the Wonder Book website shopping cart and
offers all the 1.5 million books for purchase in a single location. This
is accomplished by using custom programs created by Port City Web that
import data from multiple data sources. Additionally, orders for books
that are in Baker & Taylor's warehouse are automatically sent to the
warehouse by another custom program developed by Port City Web. "We built
the programs and systems to save Wonder Book hundreds of hours per month in
manual labor processing and managing orders. Additionally, the systems we
built reduce the potential for human errors processing orders, which will
save Wonder Book more money and improve their relationships with their
customers," noted Crago.
About Wonder Book and Video
Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ALL kinds of books from 95
cent children's paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Wonder
Book's retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in
looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or
where bibliophiles can get lost "in the stacks" for as long as they wish.
Through our retail stores and now the internet, Wonder Book has been
recycling millions of books since 1980 by finding previously owned titles a
brand new home. In 2000 we launched our "Books by the Foot" service where
Interior Designers can purchase Decorator Books of all shapes, sizes, and
colors in bulk. In 2002 USAToday recognized Wonder Book and Video as "1 of
10 Great Used Bookstores," and we have been featured in numerous other
newspaper and TV stories.
About Port City Web, LLC
Port City Web is an award-winning, full-service website design,
development, hosting and marketing company. Specializing in online
commerce, also known as ecommerce, Port City Web delivers innovative, cost
effective electronic marketing tools that are built to work with current
systems. Past and present clients include The University of New Hampshire,
Born & Bicknell, Columbia University, Service Credit Union, NAPS, K2, Lonza
Biologics and Smith & Wesson.
Contact:
Clark Kline
Wonder Book and Video
Email Contact
1-301-694-3547
www.wonderbk.com
Erik Crago
Port City Web, LLC
Email Contact
www.portcityweb.com
1-800-291-7147
