ABSTRACT
This study discusses factors affecting the customer value, and the performance of the online bookshop model. In our case, the biggest trading company in our country developed an online bookshop model to be taken into use in its supermarkets. The time was not yet right to implement the online-books, but useful knowledge was gained as for the internal and external factors to be taken into account when planning online bookshop. The company developed its strategies and the full range of its information systems to get to the retail business front line to enable achieving customer value and profitable business in the future.
ORGANIZATION OF WORK
This project work is primarily designed to give an insight into online bookshop.
Chapter one talks about introduction to online bookshop, study of problem and objectives as well as definition of the scope.
Chapter two comprises the literature review. Chapter three gives the detailed information about the existing (old) system, while chapter four and five deals with the design and implantation of new system.
Chapter six documents the project work, while chapter seven summaries, conclusion and suggestions were made.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Abstract v
Table of contents vii
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background of the study 1
1.2 State of the problem 2
1.3 Purpose of the study 3
1.4 Aims and objectives 3
1.5 Scope of study 5
1.6 Limitations of study 5
1.7 Assumptions 6
1.8 Definition of terms 7
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW 8
CHAPTER THREE
- Description
and analysis of existing system 15
- Fact finding method used 17
- Organization structure 19
- Objectives of Existing system 21
- Input, Process and Output Analysis 22
- Information Flow Diagrams 26
- Problems of the Existing System 27
- Justification of the New System 28
CHAPTER FOUR
- Design
of the New System 30
- Input Specification and design 30
- Output specification and design 32
- File Design 34
- Procedure chart 36
- System flow chart 38
- System requirements 40
CHAPTER FIVE
- Implementation 42
- Program Design 45
- Program Flowchart 48
- Pseudo code 54
- Source Program: Test Run 59
CHAPTER SIX
Documentation 60
CHAPTER SEVEN
- Recommendation 62
- Conclusion 64
Bibliography 65
1.0 CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Books are different from many other products, such as music and books that are commonly purchased online. Many bookshop products are expensive and therefore time-sensitive in terms of their delivery needs. In addition, books are a replacement product, i.e., the same basket of products is more-or-less purchased on a regular basis. Finally, books are high-touch items, meaning that consumers like to inspect the quality of items they are purchasing.
Book, a volume of many sheets bound together, containing text, illustration, or music. Unlike an inscribed monument, a book is portable; and unlike a private diary, which may be in book form, it is intended for circulation. A book is larger than a pamphlet and is a single independent unit as distinguished from a periodical. The term is applied by extension to the scrolls used in the ancient world. In an editorial sense the word book refers to some literary works, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, or to major divisions of a literary work, such as the books of the Bible or the Roman epic the Aeneid. Books, as relatively durable and portable artefacts, have preserved and diffused knowledge and feeling over vast distances of space and time. Modern civilization is unthinkable without them.
HISTORY OF BOOK
The history of book collecting began at least as early as the founding of a library of Nineveh by King Assurbanipal. The philosopher Aristotle had a private library which was said to have been a model for the great Library of Alexandria developed by Ptolemy II. At Pergamon in Asia Minor, another important collection of books was created by Eumenes II. During the Middle Ages, thanks to individual and collective efforts important Church, monastic, and cathedral libraries were created. Universities also began to collect books. Interest in collecting books for their own sake is expressed in Philobiblon (1473), a posthumously published autobiographical work by Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham. Fostered by the humanist spirit, the spread of printing, and the general increase in wealth, the great merchants and rulers of the 15th and 16th centuries amassed collections of manuscripts and the first products of the printing presses. During the 17th and 18th centuries there was a passion for book collecting in Europe, especially France. Men such as Richelieu, Mazarin, and Colbert made important contributions and collections. There were also rich court libraries which later became national libraries. These were the result of individual collections such as those belonging to August, Duke of Brunswick, and the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg. The activities of English book collectors brought about the foundation of the British Museum in 1753. Less commendably, some private collections were spoils of war. In the 17th century, Gustavus Adolphus, the Swedish warrior king, sent complete libraries home from the lands he conquered. Charles X of Sweden and his queen Christina followed suit for the royal library at Stockholm in Sweden.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the centre of book-collecting activity gradually shifted from Europe to the United States. Famous American book collectors include: John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Edwards Huntington; James Lenox, whose collection formed part of the New York Public Library; John Carter Brown, whose American collection is now at Brown University; Henry Clay Folger, who founded the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; and the dealer collector A. S. W. Rosenbach whose magnificent collection of children’s books was eventually presented to the Philadelphia Free Library
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Owing to:
The expensive nature of the books.
Competition involved in the bookshop market.
Inadequate distribution of books through bookshop.
Lack of adequate information about bookshop.
The need arise for the development of Online bookshop software that will help to solve these problems.
AN ONLINE BOOKSHOP
