Ecbooks.com sells new and used books in Crestview, FL
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Emerald Coast Book Haven online used bookstore specializing in quality romance, mystery, scifi/fantasy, and popular fiction
Description
Jim and Yvonne first opened Emerald Coast Book Haven as an Internet bookstore in April of 1997. Jim created and maintained the ecbooks.com web site when he wasn’t deployed on temporary duty with the United States Air Force and Yvonne ran the bookstore as a stay at home mother of three boys. They leased the Ingram Books in print database to make available over 400,000 new books to their customers. At that time this was a tremendous amount of books which were dropped shipped from regional warehouses owned by Ingram. Jim and Yvonne soon discovered after six months that drop shipping was slow and very difficult to provide good customer service. They also realized that they couldn't compete with Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.
Yvonne's love of romance books made her decide to concentrate on a niche market. She stocked up on hot new romance books and Jim created a new web site called "A Romance Haven". After a few months the new web site was moderately successful but Yvonne still wasn't happy and wanted to further define her niche on the Internet. She decided to part with her collection of 4,000 used romance books so Jim added another web site called "A Treasure Haven". The used romance books were an immediate success and quickly outpaced the new romance books in total sales. Yvonne knew she was on to something and began to add more and more books to the used store.
In April 1999 the used romance book database reached 20,000 books. Yvonne decided to combine the new and used book databases into a single store and use "A Romance Haven" as the main web site. The database steadily grew to reach 35,000 books.
