Great Job and nice concept. I like also the traditional way of shopping books. You can touch them and go through all the pages to have a look, and with your idea you find a way that makes the shopping quite similar...
Dear Olivia,
thanks for your submission!
• I like your pragmatic and simple integration of a digital bookshelf into book stores to discover and buy eBooks. • What about an extra function to integrate or even emphasize the personal connection to the bookseller in store? Personal contact is still of fundamental importance, and poeple working there provide a great knowledge of recommondations. What do you think?
Yours Jesko
Hello Jesko, thanks for your comment and for the idea to integrate personal contact to the booksellers. I think it can make my idea even stronger, because it fits in my concept, to bring the old shopping princip into a new technology. I will think about it, how to add this idea.
Also I was thinking about to hold the smartphone or ebook at the code and you can take the book for 30min or a time, to sit down in the store somewhere and have a look in the book, without standing the whole time on the display...
Awesome idea! To sit down and read for a few minutes what the book is about - LOVE it! Well done Olivia!
Hey Olivia,
actually I would suggest to move your current slide 2 in front, since its an even better presentation of your idea.
What do you think?
Yours Jesko
Ich mag Ihre Idee, frage mich aber, wie die E-Book-Datei letztendlich auf das Lesegerät gelangt? Hier scheint mir noch eine Menge IT im Untergrund nötig. Bieten Sie dafür Lösungsansätze? I like your idea. I'm wondering however how the physical ebook file is being transferred to the reading device. I suppose that there will be a lot of IT involved. Will this be part of your concept or will you be leaving this to others?
Thanks for your comment. This is correct. It it not possible to scan the code with the ebook and get a book by this way. So I changed the payment option. Now you can press the button "Print" and get a code, where you can download the file after paying at the bookstore pay desk. Or you can Press "Pay with App/Online" where you get directly a code on the bookshelf 2.0 display and download the file by paying directly online. Both options works only with the internet.
Nice work, Olivia!! I like the idea of a big sized "terminal". May I even suggest something? What if you enable the option to press help and the customer maybe gets a face-to-face talk via web cam with a staff person? This woul not only be pretty cool but even would enable the staff member of a bookstore to be immediately with you... so the customer no longer has to wait until a staff member reaches her/him. Just imagine the possibilities if each staf member has an iPad (or something similar) with her/him and could already talk with you while she/he is on the way to you....
Thanks a lot InDezign. I like also your idea to have a web cam for talking directly with the staff person. But I think it is also necessary that the staff person is coming also to you, because it is more comfortable as they can help you directly at the display and I think it is a nicer way to communicate.
This could work. Simple and clean. One of best ideas around this contest as you did what the brief was asking. Good luck !
Mihai, Thank you very much for your comment. It´s really nice to hear that you like my idea!
I really like this idea - but don´t get me wrong when I say, it does look kind of boring too. The interaction is so clever and easy that there is no moment of suprise. I know that this is not something the brief was mentioning, but with your skills I believe you could turn this great example of a digital shelve into something even bigger and more interesting. As said, I like it, but there is a clean feeling to it that does not leave me breathless. Maybe there is more to it?
All the best, Raiko
Hey Raiko! Thanks for your comment and your straight answer. I think it is very necessary that the interaction is clever and easy. It has to be work on the easiest way, that´s why it is so clear and designed very minimalistic. Some people love the simple design and some not, but I think the most important is that a big target group can handle the interaction, also children or youth people.
Regards Olivia
May i sugest, that on one side of the Bookshelves, you have the e-books and on the other side, the real books. On the press of a secret button (found while browsing the e-books), the bookshelves turn and the real books apear. Just like in the Scooby Doo movies. The real books can be special edition versions. Great solution and design.
Hello Tiberiu Tizu. That´s a really interesting suggestion how I can work in the future with the bookshelf 2.0 to make also special editions. Okay, i think it will be a expensive solution, but maybe for some kind of special "inovation" books.
Thanks for your comment.
Regards Olivia
incredible work here Olivia ! I is pretty outstanding the way your idea evolved and got better in every detail.
Definitely one of the best maybe even the best, but you never know in this contest :)))) you have my 10 ! Good luck !
Congratulations for the well deservede Jurry Prize. Have a wonderful time and presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair .
Congrats, Olivia! Happy for you and all the best for the Frankfurter Buchmesse! :)
Hey Olivia
I wrote my Master Thesis about such digital shelf approaches. Currently we implement a "Blended Shelf" for libraries. More info here: http://www.eikekleiner.de/
I'm very happy to see your idea submission "coming to life" at the book fair today. Thank you so much for your efforts and I will be tweeting live about the event with @jovoto and @jormason
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