Rendition of a Seattle Bookstore
to Support an on-line Reader's Book Club
store designed by Titan's Guild

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 downtown Seattle 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. You can even meet the proprietor of the virtual book store!

1) A Tour of the Virtual Seattle Book Store
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2) Entry to the Store

Arriving at virtual book store

Book display in the window

3) A Look at the Retail Environment
Creating a community for the customers

From behind the counter

Display of bestsellers

Readers in the virtual book club talking to author Bruce Damer	CD Music Stacks
May I help you?	View of helper avatar (real person) from stacks

4) Touring the Store

Sitting area in the back of the store

Stairs to the second floor

5) A Look Upstairs

Retail counter from upstairs

Cafe area upstairs

Proud builder and proprietor of virtual store	To the future of retailing?

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