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08 August, 2006

Topsy and Tim books

Are you a fan of Topsy and Tim? We have a large selection of Topsy ad Tim books now available in our ebay shop. If you are interested please click here.

04 August, 2006

What is an ebook?

When Bowbridge Publishing first started out we were primarily a publisher of ebooks or electronic books. Now we have moved more into selling second hand and new books. However, we stll sell a small range of ebooks and felt that it might be useful to explain a little bit about them.

When we started publishing these books we felt that they were going to soon take off into the new way of reading. However, it seems that this has not happened. The reason we felt this was that the convenience of reading a book on a computer seemed like such a great thing. If a person had a laptop with them on the tain it would stop the need for them to ake additional books. Instructional books might be useful being read alongside the work that is being done on the laptop. The saving in paper seemed to be a great environmental advantage and meant that the prices of the books were lower than printed ones.

However the ebook market has been flooded with short, uninteresting books about how to suceed in pyramid marketing and the like which have given the industry a bad name. We would love to help improve the image of ebooks and hope that the informative and good quality books that we produce might help to do that. Unfortunately due to he costs of illustrators and the lack of demand we are no longer publishing new titles. However, we do still have a small range available for purchase. These can be found by clicking here. Thank you very much.

Using eBay

As a prolific eBay seller I know a lot about eBay and how to look out for any suspicious looking buyers or sellers. Many new visitors to eBay may wonder why so many peole use it and why they send their money off to complete strangers in hope that they might receive some goods in exchange.

Ebay has always been based around trust between small sellers and buyers. However, since it has grown there has been a need to improve the security for boh buyers and sellers. The main way that eBay achieves this is to use a feedback system. Everytime a buyer purchases something they are encouraged to leave a comment and a feedback rating (positive, neutral or negative) for that seller and the seller will do the same for the buyer. This is a great initial way to check if the seller is trustworthy and provides a good service. To see an example of a sellers feedback, please feel free to look at our feedback page by clicking here.

Of course there are some flaws in this system. However good a seller is, items can still go missing or get damaged in the post for example. If you are worried about this you can always email the seller to find out what their policy is should this occur.

If you wish to become a seller on eBay then there are quite a lot of things that you can do to make you stand out from other sellers. I have written an article for eBay on this topic and it can be found by clicking here.

The internet network marketing ideally does not work on the principle of link exchange. However adwords advertising is a good means of online marketing. To get this online software is required., since the process is fairly simple.

Bettany Press Titles

We are now stocking a variety of Bettany Press titles. Most of these are Chalet School titles :

Behind the Chalet School (EM Brent-Dyer biography) by Heather McClelland
The Chalet School Revisited by Rosemary Auchmuty and Ju Gosling
The Chalet School Companion by Helen McClelland
Visitors for the Chalet School by Helen McClelland


We have also decided to sell some Jane Shaw books from her 'Susan' series. These are:

A Job for Susan by Jane Shaw
Susan's Kind Heart by Jane Shaw
Where is Susan by Jane Shaw
Susan and Friends - The Jane Shaw Companion by Alison Lindsay


If you would like to purchase any of these books, just click on the relevant title. Thank you and happy reading!