Seems like a paradigm shift to me.

A bookseller selling groceries. But then it is not any bookseller.
Amazom has the system, the customers and I guess a box of cereal is not much different than a book.
Since the Grocery Store appeared in beta in late May, more than 200,000 customers have tested it, ordering everything from Kashi cereal to Jiffy Pop popcorn. We are now officially opening Amazon Grocery, a store filled with stuff you need and stuff you love, everyday staples and fun new snacks.

There are …

• More than 14,000 nonperishable items–and counting
• All eligible for Amazon Prime and FREE Super Saver Shipping
• Great everyday prices on your favorite brands
• A huge selection of natural and organic products

Amazing eh!

Amazon.com Grocery: Snacks, Cookies and Candy, Coffee and Tea, Natural & Organic, Baby Care, Household, Pet Supplies & more Grocery:

Second hand book stores are great placed to spend some time but for the owners just browsing doesnt pay the rent. Some old favourites have moved on over the years but many still remain. Here is a way for some of them to survive. Integrate the strore with an on-line bookstore!

APP.COM – Rural stores thrive by opening doors to a wider world of customers | Asbury Park Press Online

Four new from Book Surge.

In the book, Lam also describes the minimum spiritual criteria and the necessary steps one must take in order to pass the Final Judgment and be elected for the next stage of human evolution: the Wisdom Era. Filled with messages of hope, reconciliation, love, wisdom, peace, and redemption, The Last Salvation: How to Prepare for Judgment Day and the Coming Wisdom Era will appeal to people from all walks of life and all ethnic and religious backgrounds.

Judgment Day is Here and Now

Ba’qubah Iraq: On the Edge of a Triangle began as one soldier’s chronicle of events that occurred when his platoon was conducting operations in Iraq. As this chronicle grew, it became clear that the entries had the potential of influencing military operations in Iraq. Included in this book are daily records of our military involvement in this volatile and highly controversial engagement.

Military Log Analyzes Desert Operations in the Ongoing War in Iraq

More than two million people have flown on the Concorde supersonic jet.
Now that the Concorde’s been grounded, people no longer have the
opportunity to experience the magic and wonders of its flight. Or do
they? Author Amelia B. Eclavea has flown on the British Concorde, and
she’s about to give kids of all ages a “you-are-there” tour of what
it’s like to fly on a supersonic jet!

What’s it Really Like to Fly in a Supersonic Jet?

In professor Helen L. Erickson’s Modeling and Role-Modeling: A View
From the Client’s World, health care providers can explore how the
mind, body and spirit all interact to affect health and quality of
life, enabling them to better help their clients grow and heal.

What makes a great health care provider? Erickson takes a holistic
view, suggesting that optimum care requires an understanding that there
is a connection between mind, body and spirit. Using the Modeling and
Role-Modeling (MRM) theory, she emphasizes that caregivers must
discover the individual client’s perspective and model their care
accordingly.

A Professor of Nursing Examines the Mind/Body/Spirit Connection

Faced with the closing of her publisher, Diane Lau (aka romance author Diana Laurence) chose to create her own publishing house for her existing and future book titles. The results were so successful, Lau decided to document the process and share it with other authors.

Do-It-YourSelf-Publishing is available from Living Beyond Reality Press and online ebook retailers including Amazon. 50 pages in Adobe Reader (pdf) format, with color illustrations, the book retails for $2.99. For complete information visit here!

Good article about Amazon and Book Surge!

Article here.

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The traditional path through traditional publishers to get your ‘tome’ published is becoming less and less a beaten track. Day by day stories emerge through the media and blogs of authors that have successfully self-published. In the coming weeks I will feature more and more of these stories as this trend aint stopping.

A perfect example is the columnist John G.F. Carey from the Bahamas. He had a collection of the newspaper columns he wrote from 1998 to 2000.

His passionate words have now been published via Booksurge. BookSurge LLC, is an Amazon.com company, and a global leader in self-publishing and print-on-demand services. They offer unique publishing opportunities and access to the Amazon sales distribution system for authors, and a large number of authors find that after self-publishing with Book Surge their book has a ggod chance of being picked up by traditional publishers.

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Publishers turn to online!

Claiming to have no interest in competing with the likes of Amazon, traditional book publishers are nevertheless turning to online retailing themselves. The internet is forcing the industry to rethink its business model.

Story here! Book Publishers as E-tailers

Business angle? Get your own publishing site up now even if you have only got one book. Eventually Google, Yahoo etc will have special search engiones for books and if your title comes up it will be a sale!