How to start online book store in India

1
How to start online book store in india
2
How to start online book store in India

• Books are one of the top things bought over the
  Internet. An online book shop is an incredible
  business model for start ups in India. Books are
  the things from where many great start ups like
  Flipkart and Amazon started, the reason books are
  considered as the best product to start an
  eCommerce business as there is not much variation
  in the product like quality, fabric, size etc.,
  and so, because of this people tend to easily
  trust the site and then it becomes easy for the
  website to sell other products. In online
  business, once you have customers trust you can
  sell anything to them and they would easily buy
  from you. This is the actual take of experts on
  the success of amazon and flipkart.

3
Why to start business of book selling in India
Online

• The market of books and educational products is
  growing rapidly in India, the first question
  which comes to mind here is Is this venture
  really feasible or why does people will buy
  from your online store rather than their local
  book shops or offline stores, the answer is the
  size of discounts an online store can give is for
  too greater than any offline. And also the range
  of books, their huge catalogs in various
  categories offered by online store can be
  incomparable. Comparisons between different
  authors, publications, readers review etc. gives
  customers an extra reason to shop online. Hence
  people prefer to spend more time online
  researching the book and buying them there,
  rather than to go to any local stores, as there
  is no one to give them any information about the
  book.

4
Business plan for starting an online book store
how to a start bookstore

• The next thing to look for is what are the
  things on which you need to work on to setup your
  online bookstore business..
• Finalizing a perfect Domain Name or Business
  Name
• The first step for getting started will be to
  find a good and relevant domain name of your
  venture and the best way is to use the online
  tools which can help u in some domain
  suggestions. You can check the list of tools for
  finding a perfect domain name here. Next step
  after finding a business name of your choice will
  be getting the legal formalities and other terms
  like venture

5
Business licenses needed for staring online book
selling business in India or starting online
business in india

• Legal formalities of starting a Book based
  venture is simple, it includes a registration of
  the business, like getting a proprietorship firm
  registered, or if there are more than one
  founders, then getting an partnership firm
  registered will be required.
• The registered firm will also be required to
  get a VAT number or a TIN number as per state
  legal formalities. These are required for selling
  products with Invoicing and for other
  formalities. For this you can take help of a
  local Chartered Accountant.

6
Website for starting business of book selling

• The most important part this business or for
  starting ecommerce business in India, is your web
  store. So for the website the best part I would
  recommend for the start up is choosing some kind
  of eCommerce platform which can help u with
  complete hassle free solution. You can go for
  Nationkart to build your store as they can help u
  with complete single window solution like
  business registration, domain search, logo
  designing, web store design with responsive
  model, SEO and all other steps.

7
Getting a payment gateway

• There are many payment gateway aggregators in
  India who can help you with the system which is
  required for accepting payments online in your
  web store.
• Here are the basic Transaction charges that would
  be charged by a payment gateway aggregators in
  India for getting an online transaction in your
  store.
• Debit cards 0.75-2
• For Credit Cards 2.0 3.9
• For Net Banking 2.0 3.0
• The commercials mentioned above are approximate
  and will depends on the aggregator u go for,

8
Getting an Logistics company for shipping

• For the logistics part either you can contact 3rd
  party service providers like Bluedart, Fedex,
  DTDC or you can contact Nationkarts executives
  for NPOST. This can help you to get discounted
  rates, and also automated system for shipping and
  logistics.

9
Product Sourcing for starting up an online
bookstore.

• One of the most important part is finding a
  perfect supplier of the books, basically there
  are two kind of suppliers, publishers and
  distributors. Publishers are the ones who
  publishes the books and distributors are some one
  from whom you can get inventory of multiple
  publishers at single desk. Suppliers Locations
  in India   You can get all the major publishers
  and distributors in Daryaganj, Delhi. And also,
  each of the distributors have their sub branches
  in most of the cities.

10
bookstore business plan Margins / Profitability
and ROI Calculations

• Starting up an online bookstore can be profitable
  in India if one acquires a large volume of
  traffic and is successful in converting the
  traffic into sales.
• The margin percentage provided by the publishers
  on the books
• Discounts in terms of age on the MRP

11
Margin Margin Margin Margin
A.B. 25 N.Age 30
Abhinav Pub 35 Narosa 25
Abp 30 Natraj 35
Aitbs 30 Nbt 30
Allied Pub. Pvt. Ltd. 25 Neelkamal Publ 30
Ane Books 30 Nem Chand Brothers 15
Api 35 Nirali 15
Associated 20 Oclc 30
B.Jain 30 Orient Longman 30
Bpb 30   35 Oup 33.33
Bright Publication 40 Oxibh 30
Bsc 40 Palgrave 30
Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd. 25 Paragon 35
12
Butterworth 30 Penguin 30
Cambridge 30 Penram 30
CBS PUB 30 Pentagon Press 35
CHILDREN BOOK TRUST 30 Phi 30
Cengage 30 40 Popular Prakashan 33
Charotar 20 Prabhat Prakashan 33
CENTRAL PUBLISHING HOUSE 20 Pragati 20
Danika 35 PEARSON 27.5 40
Dhanpat Rai 20 Qford 35
Diamond Books 35 Rajpal 33.33
Ebd 35 Rang 30
Elsevier 30 Rastogi Pub. 20
Excel Books 33.33 Rawat Pub. 30
13
Exme 30 Roli Books 35
Frank 20 Rupa 30
G.K.Pub. 35 S.Chand 20
Galgotia 35 S.K.Kataria 25
Gpc 35 Sage Pub.Pvt.Ltd 35
Hbs 30 Sahni Brothers 33.33
Hpb 35 Satya Prakashan 20
HIND POCKET BOOKS 20 Standard 20
I.K.Int 30 Scientific Publisher 25
Ibd 30 Scitech Pub. 30
Ibdc 25 Sharda Pustak Bhawan 25
Ibh 35 Spectrum 35
Icfai 30 Springer 30
14
Indrapublishing House 35 STERLING 25
Jagran 30 Student Edition 30
Jaico Pub. 35 Sun India Publications 20
Jain Brothers 30 Surjeet Pub. 30
Jawahar 25 Taxman 20
Khanna 20 Taylor And Francis 30
KEDARNATH 20 Techmedia 30
Konark Pub. 30 Teksons 35
Laxmi Pub. 22.530 Think Inc. 35
Loyal 30 Tmh 32.5 40
Macmillan India 25 Udh 30
Made Easy 40 Umesh 20
Manjul Pub. 35 Universal 30
Metropolitan Book Co. (P) Ltd. 20 Vikas 30
MCGRAWHILL INTL 30 Viva Books 30
Mlbd 30 Vrinda Pub 25
Mpp 15 Wiley India 30
Word Press 30
15
The list is not updated every day as per
changes in pricing and is for informative purpose
only.