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R. V. College of Engineering R. V. College of Engineering Content Introduction …………………………………………………….2 Objective………………………………………………………...2 Introduction……………………………………………………..2 Book store today ………………………………………………..2 Book store management ……………………………………….5 Management information system in bookstore ………………..6 Methodology ………………………………………………….6-7 Literature Review……………………………………………...8 System of book distribution…………………………………...8-9 Control trust center …………………………………………..10-11 Data Flow Diagram in book store management ……………12-16 Case study…………………………………………………...17-21 Bibliography ………………………………………………...22 Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Page 1 R. V. College of Engineering OBJECTIVE: Application of Management Information System in bookstores in India INTRODUCTION: COMPANY PROFILE: Sapna Book House Pvt Ltd - India’s largest showroom for books is located in Bangalore, started in 1967, is spread across 40, 000 sq.ft and caters to information, education and entertainment products. It showcases books for general reading, management, sciences, textbooks for graduate courses and competitive exams, engineering, computer and medicine, enticing collection of children’s books. It has total 6 branches in Sadashivnagar, Jaynagar, Indiranagar, Koromangala and Mysore including its head office in Gandhinagar (Bangalore). All these branches are spread across 1, 50,000 sq ft. BOOKSTORES TODAY: Bookstores may be either part of a chain or local bookstores. Bookstores can range in size offering from several hundred to several hundred thousands of titles. They may be brick-and-mortar stores or internet only stores or a combination of both. Sizes for the larger bookstores exceed half a million titles. Bookstores often sell other printed matter besides books, such as newspapers, magazines and maps; additional product lines may vary enormously, particularly among independent bookstores. Colleges and universities often have their own student bookstore on campus that focuses on providing course textbooks and scholarly books, although some on-campus bookstores are owned by large chains such as W H Smith or Waterston’s in the United Kingdom, or Barnes & Noble College Booksellers in the United States, which is a private firm controlled by the chair of Barnes & Noble. Another common type of bookstore is the used bookstore or second-hand bookshop which buys and sells used and out-of-print books in a variety of conditions. A range of titles are available in used bookstores, including in print and out of print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores. Large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too. Individuals wishing to sell their used books using online bookstores agree to terms outlined by the bookstore(s): for example, paying the online bookstore(s) a predetermined commission once the books have sold Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Page 2 R. V. College of Engineering MODERN BOOKSELLING: The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing. The earliest printers were also editors and booksellers; but being unable to sell every copy of the works they printed, they had agents at most of the seats of learning, such as Antony Koburger, who introduced the art of printing into Nuremberg in 1470.. The first patent for the office of king's printer was granted to Thomas Berthelot by Henry VIII in 1529, but only such books as were first licensed were to be printed. At that time even the purchase or possession of an unlicensed book was a punishable offense. In 1556 the Company of Stationers was incorporated, and very extensive powers were granted in order that obnoxious books might be repressed. In the following reigns the Star Chamber exercised a rather effectual censorship; but, in spite of all precaution, such was the demand for books of a polemical nature, that many were printed abroad and surreptitiously introduced into England. Queen Elizabeth interfered little with books except when they emanated from Roman Catholics, or touched upon her royal prerogatives; and towards the end of her reign, and during that of her successor, James, bookselling flourished. So much had bookselling increased during the Protectorate that, in 1658, was published A Catalogue of the most Vendible Books in England by W. London. A bad time immediately followed. Although there were provincial booksellers the centre of the trade was St. Paul's Churchyard. When the Great Fire of London began in 1666 the booksellers put most of their stock in the vaults of the church, where it was destroyed. The Restoration also restored the office of Licenser of the Press, which continued till 1694. In the first copyright statute, the Statute of Anne (1709), which specially relates to booksellers, it is enacted that, if any person shall think the published price of a book unreasonably high, he may make a complaint to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to certain other persons named, who shall examine his complaint, and if well founded reduce the price; and any bookseller charging more than the price so fixed shall be fined £5 for every copy sold. Apparently this enactment remained a dead letter. SELLING AND PUBLISHING: For later times it is necessary to make a gradual distinction between booksellers, whose trade consists in selling books, either by retail or wholesale, and publishers, whose business involves the production of the books from the author's manuscripts, and who are the intermediaries between author and bookseller, just as the booksellers (in the restricted sense) are intermediaries between the author and publisher and the public. The convenience of this distinction is not impaired by the fact either that a publisher is also a wholesale bookseller, or that a still more recent development in publishing started a reaction to some extent in the way of amalgamating the two functions. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Page 3 R. V. College of Engineering The scheme of The Times Book Club (started in 1905) was, again, a combination of a subscription library with the business of bookselling and it brought the organization of a newspaper, with all its means of achieving publicity, into the work of promoting the sale of books, in a way which practically introduced a new factor into the bookselling business. SPECIALTY DEVELOPMENTS: During the 19th century it remains the fact that the distinction between publisher and bookseller—literary promoter and shopkeeper—became fundamental. The booksellers, as such, were engaged either in wholesale bookselling, or in the retail, the old or second-hand (now includes rare and very old books trade, called Antiquarian books), and the periodicals publishing or retailing trades. Coming between the publisher and the retail bookseller is the important distributing agency of the wholesale bookseller. It is to him that the retailer looks for his miscellaneous supplies, as it is simply impossible for him to stock one-half of the books published. In Paternoster Row, London, which has for over a hundred years been the centre of this industry, may be seen the collectors from the shops of the retail booksellers, busily engaged in obtaining the books ordered by the book-buying public. It is also through these agencies that the country bookseller obtains his miscellaneous supplies. At the leading house in this department of bookselling almost any book can be found, or information obtained concerning it. At one of these establishments over 1,000,000 books are constantly kept in stock. It is here that the publisher calls first on showing or "subscribing" a new book, a critical process, for by the number thus subscribed the fate of a book is sometimes determined. What may be termed the third partner in publishing and its ramification is the retail bookseller; and to protect his interests there was established in 1890 a London booksellers' society, which had for its object the restriction of discounts to 25%, and also to arrange prices generally and control all details connected with the trade. The society a few years afterwards widened its field of operations so as to include the whole of the United Kingdom, and its designation then became "The Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland." Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Page 4 R. V. College of Engineering BOOK SHOP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Bookshop Management System is a combination of a Point-Of-Sales and book Rental System which manage the sales and rental transaction and inventory of bookshops. User enter the product details to the system, system will automatically generate product id, and bar code for each entrance. When customers purchase or rent the product, system will generate receipt for the transaction. The system also provides a platform to manage you cash-in-out of the day, and details daily and monthly income report to prevent fraud in business transaction. Inventory Management could help to manage you stocks a product more efficient. We are able to browse your stocks and products balance on real-time without have to recount your stock at the store room, system deducts stocks on sales and stock return transaction. When the product meets the minimum re-order quantity, system will alert you to restock your product so that you may prevent out-of-stock condition. It may fully customize your business value such as, global discount (for all products in your shop), product discount (based on product category or item basis). It also able to set the rental rate for the products category. For security purposes, the system complete with user management, where you can customize the user access priority. It can enable or disable some of the system features for some user, so that you can protect your business information from expose to unauthorized user. Finally, the system generates full report on business transaction and you able to print and export the report to excel form Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Page 5 R. V. College of Engineering MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN BOOKSTORE: Book distribution as a part of book publishing has some problems.
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