Ka-Zam helps independent bookseller battle big box retail utilizing latest web technology.

Portage, IN March 1, 2007 - Today can be marked on the calendar as a victory of the independent retailer and independent bookstore. Heather Lambert is opening The Book Attic in Portage, Indiana. Determined to create a modern bookselling business she turned to Ka-Zam (www.ka-zam.com) to power her store, both on-line and off-line. From a networked POS system to intelligent on-line inventory and CRM system, The Book Attic will help re-define the bookstore and bookselling, as we know it.

Years ago Heather Lambert began to fall deeply in love with books. As she voraciously read one after another, they began to fill more and more physical space. Heather says,” I realized owning a bookstore would be my dream job.” Together she and her husband began a mission to learn everything about starting a new bookstore. Taking on software her husband, Steve, began to quickly grasp the problem with the situation. There was a large amount of cheap hobbyist software and a number of options for giant retailers. Feeling like the Anti-Goldilocks, he could not find anything that was “just right.” Steve says,”I had given up on finding the right bookselling software. Then I found Ka-Zam and everything changed.”

“[Ka-Zam] does exactly what I want it to do, it has everything I needed it to have for bookselling. Ka-Zam is helping my dream job come true,” says Heather Lambert. The Book Attic is part of a new type of independent retailer. Not the mom-and-pop retailer of old with a chunky cash register as their POS, but rather an agile, smart independent retailer driven and powered by passion and new technology such as Ka-Zam. In a world currently dominated by big box retailers, independent merchants such as Heather Lambert are the wave of the future as they use technology to broaden their market and increase there efficiency in ways unimaginable even a few years ago.

About Lorem Ipsum Books and Ka-Zam:

Ka-Zam is a product of Lorem Ipsum Books. Lorem Ipsum Books is a leader in the book software and services field, creating innovative inventory management and commerce applications for both retail and e-commerce clients since 2003. Anchored in a traditional brick and mortar bookstore by the same name in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the software company is able to combine its retail and Internet experience to make the book industry more efficient and customer focused.

Ka-Zam is a web-based tool that enables efficient transactions for bookstores, selling both online and in traditional retail environments. Combining point-of-sale, data entry speedups, real-time pricing, multiple accounts, Internet order processing, inventory warehousing, and an individual e-commerce website under a web-based interface, Ka-Zam provides a community of independent booksellers with the data-rich feature set it needs to maximize profits in a competitive and rapidly changing market. Ka-Zam works with most online distributors, including Amazon (AMZN), Alibris, Abe Books.com, Google’s Froogle (GOOG), and more. Ka-Zam is a product of Lorem Ipsum Books and Lorem Labs.


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