Method: Iframes
Type: Pseudo bookstore
Link: http://www.smashingreads.com/int_embedstore.php
- Meant to be an embeddable "bookstore" (actually a link to external bookstores where the book can be found) for use with blogs and other user created sites.
- Designed to be expandable between 350 and 600 pixels, it can go beyond these limits but won't look so good.
- The third party links are currently "best guess" using the book data from Smashwords. As we cannot store data, this needs refining.
Our target was to lead the user from the featured books to the booklist to the author (and their social presence) to the bookstores. Each mention of a book brings up a page with the third party links to purchase that book.
Concerns: Special characters in user data, or tags, which may break the data feed.
Authors with over twenty books in the feed, where the system may slow (a cap is under consideration).
Constraints:
We can't store data, so this needs to be stand alone. This places a strict limit on how much customisation we can offer.
This is also why no referral links are embedded - there are too many third party merchants to handle them all.
As always any volunteers to test it, or general feedback, is useful.
Currently Live at:
http://vhfolland.blogspot.com/p/bookstore.html
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