80-Plus IndieCommerce Sites Now Benefit From New Drupal Platform

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Since migrating to the new, open-source Drupal platform, 84 ABA IndieCommerce sites are experiencing greater stability and better performance. The overall result has been an increase in both traffic and sales for migrated sites. In addition, the IndieCommerce program as a whole has reached a tipping point: more consumer traffic is now going to the sites on Drupal than to the sites that have yet to migrate.

Among the bookstores now reaping the benefits from the Drupal platform is McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petosky, Michigan. The store's Matt Norcross recently sent a note of thanks to ABA for keeping indie booksellers up to date on the digital revolution.

"As a newcomer to an IndieCommerce [Drupal] website, we are overjoyed with its wealth of features," Norcross wrote. And, although there were many features that have made "a huge difference," there were five in particular he wanted to mention:

  1. Having every book in print (and some that aren't) searchable on the site
  2. The flexibility and expandability of the Drupal format
  3. The addition of e-books!
  4. The sliding shelf display of bestsellers and Indie Next List picks
  5. Inventory quantities displayed on the site

In addition, he said, "I have been blown away by how many customers have used this last feature.... Our store is in what you'd consider a rural community. We don't think of our customer base as 'tech savvy.' But since this feature has been activated, we have had customer calling to have items held, others doing it through the website, or, better yet, they print out a copy and come to the store, and ... it even indicates the section number! This feature is driving sales in our store -- PERIOD!"

Norcross believes that "there is no greater obstacle we face than increasing our members ability to compete online" and that "we have only scratched the surface of what these Drupal sites are capable of."

The 84 stores now on the new Drupal platform are:

A Great Good Place for Books
Antigone Books
Auntie's Bookstore
Back Pages Books
Blue Willow Bookshop
Books & Company
Books 'N' More
Books Inc.
Bookshop Santa Cruz
BookWoman
Broadside Bookshop Inc.
Changing Hands Bookstore
Chapter One Book Store
City Lights Bookstore
Creekside Books & Coffee
Darvill's Bookstore
DIESEL A Bookstore
Eagle Harbor Book Co.
Epilogue Book Company
Fact & Fiction
Fireside Books and Gifts
Fountain Bookstore Inc.
Gothic Bookshop
Griffin Bay Bookstore
Harleysville Books LLC
Island Bookstore
Joseph Fox Bookshop
Kepler's Books & Magazines
King's English Bookshop
Kona Stories
Left Bank Books
Lift Bridge Book Shop
Literary Bookpost
Maria's Bookshop
McLean & Eakin Booksellers
Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop
Nantucket Bookworks
Next Chapter Bookshop
Northern Lights Books & Gifts
Oblong Books & Music - Rhinebeck
Off the Beaten Path Bookstore
Old Firehouse Books
Once Upon A Story Books
Orca Books
Orinda Books
Otto's A Booklover's Paradise
Pages New and Rare
Pegasus & Pendragon Fine Books
Penguin Bookshop LLC
Porter Square Books Inc.
Pudd'nhead Books
Quail Ridge Books & Music
Queen Anne Books
Redbery Books
River Read Books
Russo's Books
Saturn Booksellers
Skylight Books
St. Johns Booksellers
St. Mark's Bookshop
Tattered Cover Book Store Historic LoDo
That Bookstore In Blytheville
The Book Shelf
The Book Works
The Bookloft
The Collected Works Bookstore
The Doylestown Bookshop
The Galaxy Bookshop
The Hickory Stick Bookshop
The Reading Bug
The Red Balloon Bookshop
The Regulator Bookshop
The Velveteen Rabbit Bookshop and Guest House
Third Place Books
Trinity Commons Books & Gifts
UCONN Co-op Bookstore
Viewpoint Books
Village Books in Historic Fairhaven
Village Square Booksellers
Vroman's Bookstore
Warwick's
Water Street Bookstore Inc.
Windows on the World-Books & Art
Words LLC
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