About the shop
The Media Bookshop
We launched our shop, The Media Bookshop, to give media book lovers a dedicated online store all about media books. We were able to to this by using an off-the-shelf website service provided by one of the main UK book distributors. This meant we could launch the shop quickly without getting bogged-down with building a retail website from scratch and all the complex infrastruture that goes with it.
The downside is, well, the site isn’t as good as we would want it to be in terms of useability. It is tricky to set up and maintain specialist media book categories and the search function isn’t so great. Also, it appears that the only browser that the checkout works with is Internet Explorer (Firefox users beware – please use IE instead).
In time we hope our suppliers will resolve the issues with the shop. In the meantime this blog will help you to identify and link straight through to the books you want, I can only apologise if your user experience in the shop is not up to scratch – please bear with us.
Happy media book reading.
12 December, 2008 at 1:00 pm
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