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    Online book sales application
    (Federal University of Technology, Owerri, 2018-09) Jibiri, Janefrances Ebere
    An online book store is an electronic medium in which books can be bought by customers at their own comfort. The online business transaction can be business to business, business to consumer, consumer to consumer or consumer to business. It also pertains to any form of business transaction in which the parties interact electronically rather than by physical exchanges or direct physical contact. The application provides the user with a catalog of different books available for purchase. The primary goal of this study buys and sells goods and services online. The problem of the study is that customers are not satisfied with the mode of payments, customers do not know the preferable web site to purchase book and they are not safe because of faceless sellers. This work aim at developing an application for Online Book Sales, which will solve the problems by getting the aggregate percentage of customers who preferred online stores and the best book site to buy books, to know the most preferred product purchase and also provide a satisfied mode of payment for customers. The research methodology used is explorative study which includes primary data and secondary data. The sample size chosen are 50 customers of Powell’s Books, Ebay, Abe Books, Amazon, Book Scouter and Cash4Books. The survey is based on questionnaire method. A Comparative Analysis on customer’s Preferences towards online book sales such as Powell’s Books, Ebay, Abe Books, Amazon, Book Scouter, and Cash4Books. In order to develop an application for online book sale, using a backend database, a middle tier of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), a web browser as the front end client, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), Active Server Pages (ASP).NET, Visual Basic (VB).NET as the programming language, Structural Query Language (SQL) Server Database and WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) as the local server. The development of this work results are most of the customers are satisfied with the mode of payment, easy return facilities are enjoyed by most of the customers, due to privacy policies provided, almost all the customers feel safe while shopping online, customers feel that products are delivered to them on time and customers most frequently purchase academy books than other categories of books. The benefit of this work if implemented will improve cost control, improve high rate of success, security and quick delivery.