Design Of A Web Based Bookstore Model : "One Stop Malaysian BookMall"

This project is developed to present design considerations of an online Internet had bookstore model. This virtual bookstore will cater for Malaysian book and magazine publishers to venture into e-commerce. The development of electronic commerce applications today is considered expensive and risky because of many technological limitations, such as the absence of application-level interoperability, industrial standards for electronic trading and large-scale reusability of electronic commerce applications. Within the past few years, online bookstores have been set up to promote and sell books over the Internet. representing a fledgling new generation of book distributors and shops in Malaysia. A large proportion of today‘s electronic commerce applications are custom developed. One of the most obvious problems of Web-based electronic commerce systems is the lack of high-level inter-operability. This project is initiated to developed a framework of standard modeling concept for the Online based bookstore mode. The model will adopt a Clearinghouse or broker concept as its business model. Finally. the project's view on future directions in web-based development in the contest of electronic commerce will be discussed