Rendition of a West Hollywood Bookstore
to Support an on-line Reader's Book Club
store designed by Colors of Life

The concept in this project is to use on-line virtual worlds, the great grandchildren of on-line chat environments, to host a reader's book club. What better book to start with than Bruce Damer's book Avatars! which is a starter kit for virtual worlds users. The following are scenes from a book club meeting hosted in an actual 3D virtual bookstore online. The book store was modeled on the West Los Angeles Borders Books and Music store. The store has many features, such as live connections between books and their equivalent web pages. So authors can be met here and books can be purchased by driving the web-based ordering sheets. See the author meeting/reading area built for a gathering with Avatars author Bruce Damer.

1) Meeting readers in real time on-line
in the Virtual book store
Creating a community for the customers
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Meeting the Author, Bruce Damer, in his special author area in the virtual book store

Taking about the title with the author

2) A Tour of the associated Virtual Book Store

Teleports to the store from the entry plaza,
note authors and Bookstore images on the walls.

Arriving at virtual book store

Going through the entryway to the virtual book store

Book stacks inside the virtual book store	Web page of book store locations drawn up by clicking on sign on the stacks
Featured Borders title, an open-able book	Avatars book and informational/ordering page

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