BookRouter™
One catalog,
kept in step everywhere
Listed across AbeBooks, Biblio, eBay, Alibris, Amazon and others. Your own pricing at each venue, uploads on your schedule, and the listing comes down everywhere the moment a book sells.
AbeBooks
Biblio
Amazon
Alibris
viaLibri
eBayWhere BookRouter started
The unglamorous part
BookRouter has spent years doing the work nobody goes into bookselling to do. It keeps one catalog in step across every major antiquarian marketplace, uploads on the schedule you set, applies your pricing for each venue, hosts the images, and pulls a listing down when the book sells.
None of that is interesting. All of it is the difference between selling in one place and being willing to sell in a dozen.
Where your books go
Everywhere we support
Multiple channels, each with a connection we build and maintain. Support means something different on each one, and the label under each name says which kind. Routing to the antiquarian marketplaces is included with any Bibliopolis website. Amazon and eBay are add-ons, because both take real setup work and we would rather charge for that than pretend it is free.
AbeBooksFull syncBiblioFull sync
ABAAFull sync
AlibrisFull sync
AmazonFull sync, add-on
eBayFull sync, add-on
AntiqbookListing routing
viaLibriHarvest feed
Google ProductsProduct feed
Facebook MarketplaceProduct feed
LiveAuctioneersCatalog file
InvaluableCatalog fileThe five labels
What each kind of support means
Full sync. Your listings go out, orders come back into BookRouter with the buyer's details, and shipped status and tracking go back up to the venue. AbeBooks, Biblio, ABAA, Alibris, Amazon and eBay.
Listing routing. Your listings go out on your schedule and are removed when the book sells, but the venue sends nothing back, so those sales get recorded here by hand. Antiqbook.
Harvest feed. We publish a feed and the venue collects from it. Shoppers who find your book buy it on your own website, so it arrives as an ordinary website order. viaLibri.
Product feed. A file the platform fetches on its own schedule to keep your listings current. Google Products and Facebook Marketplace.
Catalog file. A spreadsheet you download from us and upload to the platform yourself, with your lot numbers and estimates added. LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable.
Not on the list
Your books, in whatever format the other end reads
Plenty of places want a file rather than a connection. You can export your catalog as BookRouter, BookRouter Extended, BookHound 8, AbeBooks Standard, HomeBase, UIEE, or a column layout you define yourself, and hand it to anyone who asks.
We can also send a file out on a schedule by FTP to a host of your choosing. That is how our sellers currently feed Ageless Literature, other website platforms, and the occasional venue we have not built a full connection for.
Included
What routing does
Everything on the listing side, included with every Bibliopolis website, and working on its own for $299 if you do not want a website. The order side, where sales come back to you, is on Orders & Shipping.
How it works
Enter it once
Two steps are yours. Everything they set off is ours.
Add it in BookRouter or send a file by FTP. BookRouter formats the record the way each venue wants it, applies the pricing you set for that venue, and uploads on your schedule.
See what is includedOnce the sale is recorded in BookRouter, from your website, an in-person sale, or a marketplace order, the book comes off every other venue on its own. Then process and ship the order directly in BookRouter.
Request a DemoSold once
Off the other venues within minutes
A book that sells on AbeBooks comes off Biblio, eBay, and everywhere else you route to, usually inside a few minutes of the order landing.
It is not instant, and we would rather say so than claim otherwise. A buyer can still reach a listing inside that gap. What the gap no longer does is stretch until the next morning.
Your shop first
Full margin before the venues see it
Routing can hold new stock back from the marketplaces for as long as you like. The listing goes up on your own site first, and a book that sells there costs you no commission.
Shops that use this line the delay up with their own new arrival notices. The people on their mailing list get first sight of the new stock.
Built for this trade
Mapping that knows what the words mean
BookRouter was not a general multichannel tool adapted for books. It was built for the antiquarian and used trade, and the difference shows up in the mapping.
Fine in dust jacket
Every venue grades condition differently and some of them barely grade it at all. BookRouter maps your grading to each venue's own vocabulary. A Fine copy does not arrive described as Good.
Your shelves, their taxonomy
Your categories and catalogs map to each venue's subject scheme, the ABAA's included. Set it once and new stock follows it.
They change without warning
Marketplaces change their APIs and their formatting rules, usually without telling anyone. We track the changes and update the mapping. This is most of the work and none of it is visible.
The next chapter
The connection runs both ways
Routing outward was only ever half of it. Orders from AbeBooks, Alibris, Amazon, Biblio and eBay now arrive in BookRouter with the buyer's details, and status and tracking go back to the venue when you ship.
We will set you up with a demo login and sample stock, or talk through your own inventory on a call and what routing it would involve.