KR20020030004A - e-mail book sales method and system thereof. - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and a system for selling works using an e-mail are provided to offer time and economic profits to a publishing company, a bookstore operator, and a customer by publishing an electronic book instead of selling a book by printing and distribution. CONSTITUTION: The system comprises book supply company databases(14,20,26) storing character data of a special work written by an editing program, a price, the name of a company, the location, the business registration number, the representative, many book supply companies(10,16,22) having respective book supply company servers(12,18,24) for offering business information and character data to the outside, and a bookstore operator(28) connected to respective book supply companies through the Internet. The bookstore operator is a web site including a book supply company management database(32), a character data management database(36), a bookstore operating server(30) for offering the contents in a book published by the book supply company to a PC of a customer, and a URL(Uniform Resource Locator).

Description

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According to the present invention, the publisher receives a specialized book stored in the CD room and other memories by the publisher, and the provider side, if required by the consumer, uses the Internet when the consumer wants the contents of the book desired by the consumer. The present invention relates to a method and a system for selling books (books) using e-mails through which e-mails are sent and e-mails are received.

(A) Recently, with the development of electronic communication and the explosive spread of computers, the base of the Internet population is expanding. The expansion of the Internet-based population has spurred the activation of Internet commerce, thereby facilitating and speeding up economic industry activities.

In particular, with the increase of the Internet population, the number of e-mail users using the Internet communication is increasing rapidly. Most e-mail users have a free e-mail account that provides a mail service, which allows them to send and receive mail at rates that are incomparable with past mail delivery rates. It is used a lot.

It also sends information held by mail users to others via e-mail.

(Me) and,

(C) Generally, a book buyer purchases the book (professional book) by using a bookstore located at a distance and checks the book on the showcase of the bookstore. Buyers could not purchase only the necessary pages, so they had to purchase even the ones they didn't need, that is, they had to buy one book to see one or two of them.

The present invention establishes a bookstore operator to present the table of contents contained in a specialized book on the Internet, the Internet bookstore operator, a virtual company on the Internet that acts for the sales activities of member companies (publishers) to solve the above (c) inconvenience,

The bookstore operator requests the services of the company's (publisher's) specialized books, and the bookstore operator opens a table of contents (bookstore operators sell only the contents corresponding to the table of contents) contained in his specialized books. When there is a purchase request from the consumer on the Internet, the bookstore operator first checks whether a certain amount of money has been deposited to the bookstore operator, and when the deposit is confirmed, the bookstore operator requests By sending e-mails, the consumer prints out the received information through a printer or saves it in the memory of the consumer's computer. Member companies that provide personal profits, and keep a large number of specialized books in a database. Even if book publishers print and distribute the specialized books, the bookstore operator, which acts as an intermediary, also provides time and economic benefits by selling electronic books without printing and distributing the specialized books. The purpose is to ensure that all three parties have a profit.

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a specialized book sales system according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart illustrating a procedure for providing a book information to a bookstore operator by a book supplier according to the present invention.

3 and 4 are explanatory diagrams for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

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Book supplier. Bookstore Operator. Buyer.

Bookstore operation system according to the present invention for achieving the above object is provided with a specialized book supplier (hereinafter referred to as a book supplier) DB that stores the text data information contained in a specialized book can provide the book information to the outside Book provider servers; Specialized books communication seller (hereinafter referred to as bookstore operator) side of the bookstore operator who can provide the book management DB that stores the book information transmitted from the book supplier server and the bookstore operator's book information to the buyer's PC Server; characterized in that comprises a.

The book supply company server and the bookstore operator server are connected to the Internet, and the bookstore operator server is sold by the consumer to the Internet.

In addition, in the book selling and selling method according to the present invention, the book supply company classifies the book title and the table of contents of the specialized book and the contents corresponding to the page indicated by the table, that is, grouped by area and sorted the classified character data into the book supply company. Storing on the server;

The book supplier company server transmitting and storing the bookstore operator server;

The bookstore operator server provides the buyer with a summary of the table of contents of the tasting-type specialty books and the contents (including pictures) corresponding to the table of contents in the specialized books supplied from the book supplier company server, and provides the buyer with the sum of the tasting contents and the amount accordingly. Doing; Therefore, when the buyer transmits the information (information corresponding to the table of contents) and the e-mail address to the bookstore operator, the bookstore operator receives the information and transmits the corresponding information requested by the buyer to the e-mail address of the buyer. It characterized by comprising;

The book supplier and the bookstore operator may further include accessing the bookstore operator server and subscribing as a member.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 constitutes this embodiment of a specialized book selling system according to the present invention.

In the specialized book sales system according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the text (including picture) data of the professional book written in the table of contents and the contents according to the table for publication by the company, and the price, mission, location, Book supplier DB (14, 20, 26) that stores company information such as business registration number and representative;

There are a plurality of A book suppliers 10, B book suppliers, C book suppliers 22 having a book supplier server 12, 18, 24 that can provide the company information and text data of the specialized books to the outside. .

Each of the suppliers 10, 16, 22 and the bookstore operator 28 are connected to the Internet.

The bookstore operator 28 includes an image file of the book delivered from the book supplier server 12, 18, 24 of the book supplier 10, 16, 22, and the table of contents contained in the book for publication by the company. The book management company DB (32) which is registered as a member such as price, company name, location, business registration number, representative, etc.

By having a bookstore operator server 30 that can provide the information stored in the DB 36 to the outside consists of a website having a specific URL (Unifom Resource Locator).

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a book supplier registering information on text data of an enterprise information and a book in a bookstore operator according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in step S2, each book provider 10, 16, or 22 is connected to a website operated by the bookstore operator 28 through the Internet.

In the next step S4, the bookstore operator 28 enters a web page that requires input of an ID and password, and each book provider 10, 16, or 22 enters a unique ID and password. By comparing the ID and password of the member companies stored in the book supplier management DB 32, each book provider 10, 16, 22 is checked whether or not the book store operator 28 is a member.

Subsequently, when the book supplier 10, 16, 22 is confirmed as a bookstore operator 28 member by the comparison confirmation, the server 12, 16, 24 of the book supplier 10, 16, 20 in step S8 The specialized book information and company information may be transmitted to the bookstore operator server 30. (Consignment sale) If the ID and password of each book supplier 10, 16, 22 do not match the ID and password stored in the management DB 32 of the bookstore operator 28, the book supplier (10, 16, 22) provides the book supplier membership application form to the book supplier (10.16.22), so that the book supplier (10, 16, 22) is a member of the bookstore operator (28) to perform the step S8.

Finally, in step S10, the bookstore operator 28 stores the information, title, table of contents, and information contained in the information management DB 36 according to the instruction page of the table from each book supplier 10, 16, 22, and the book. Company information such as company name, location, business registration number, representative, telephone / FAX, e-mail, etc. of supplier 10, 16, 22 are stored in book supplier management DB 32.

As such, the bookstore operator server 30 provides the book buyer with the book title and its title from the book titles provided from the book suppliers 10, 16, and 22, and the information provided in the contents corresponding to the contents of the table. A table of contents (except those listed) is available on the Internet.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure in which a specialized book buyer is provided with book information in a bookstore operator according to the present invention.

First, when a client computer, which is a general purchaser's PC 50, accesses the corresponding site provided by the S70 web server 30 through the Internet and selects an order menu, the web server side opens the book title window in step S71 previously stored. present.

If one of them is selected, the next step, step S72, presents a table of contents corresponding to the book and a price according to the table of contents as a submenu. If the user selects a table of contents according to the title in step S73 and then selects an order corresponding to the table of contents in step S74, when the order is completed in the order of the buyer (in the table of contents) in step S75, the e-mail address of the buyer in the web server 30 Requires. In step S76, following the buyer's e-mail address, in step 77, the payment system is activated and the payment method is selected. As a payment method, a method commonly used in electronic commerce (online deposit, credit card, electronic money, etc.) may be used.

In step S78, the web server 30 confirms the payment by the buyer's order, and when the payment is confirmed, in step S79, the web server 30 sends the content corresponding to the table of contents requested by the buyer to the buyer's e-mail. If the payment is not confirmed by the buyer in the above step, the payment system is restarted. Therefore, if the payment is not made after operating the payment system 1-2 times, it returns to the start step S70.

The above-mentioned agreement between the book supplier and the bookstore operator is concluded by contracting with the publisher and general bookstores, which are general consignment sales forms, but when the bookstore operator requests additional information from the book provider, the additional contract is Contract can be made separately.

As described above, the bookstore operator who consigns and sells the books on the book supplier side may request a certain amount according to the consignment. The book supplier can also sell the book without having to print its own specialized documentation, which has been archived for years, resulting in economic benefits; There is no economic burden because buyers who do not have a distribution process can purchase only the necessary contents among the contents contained in the specialized books needed without having a bookstore located at a distance.

In other words, the book supplier, the bookstore operator, and the buyer are all very beneficial inventions that can achieve economic effects.

Claims (4)

A book supplier company server having a book supplier company DB in which text data information contained in a specialized book is stored, and providing book information to the outside; A book store operator book management DB storing the book information transmitted from the book supplier company server and a book store operator server that can provide book information of a book store operator side to a purchaser's PC; Method and its system. The method of claim 1 A book selling method and system using e-mail, wherein the book supply company server and a bookstore operator server are connected to the Internet, and the bookstore operator server and the purchaser's PC are connected to the Internet. The book supplier stores the table of contents contained in the book and information on the corresponding page of the table in the bookstore operator server; The book provider server transmits and stores the book information to the book operator server: The bookstore operator server transmits the book information to a purchaser's PC by e-mail. The book selling method and system using e-mail, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 3, wherein The book supplier is a book sales method and system using an e-mail, characterized in that further comprising the step of accessing the bookstore operator server to join as a member.