E-Commerce Blog

“Merchant Talk” is our weekly discussion with a practicing ecommerce merchant. For this installment, we visited with Jill Exler, the founder and CEO of Jexbo.com, an ecommerce site for authors to sell their self-published books.

Practical eCommerce: Tell us about your site.

Jill Exler: “The site is Jexbo.com and it’s a mix of my name, Jill Exler, and ‘books,’ so I have the J-E-X-B-O. It’s a place for self-published authors to sell their books directly to the readers. I launched it in 2007 after I had written a book and I was going to have it self-published and then I thought, ‘Wait a minute, where am I going to sell it?’ I looked at some huge, established websites, and there are a lot of sites where writers can sell their books…

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Merchant Talk: Self-published Author Migrates to Ecommerce

Doing business on the Internet requires the use of sophisticated software and complicated processes. Many of these innovative products have been patented. Google, Amazon and others hold many hundreds of patents, but the U.S. Supreme Court may be about to greatly restrict the issuance of patents. To help us understand the case at hand and its relevance to software and Internet businesses, we spoke with intellectual property attorney Lawrence M. Hadley, with the firm of Hennigan, Bennett and Dorman in Los Angeles.

Practical eCommerce: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments recently on a case that could affect the issuance of patents for software and other Internet processes. Could you explain this case?

Lawrence M. Hadley: “Well,…

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