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Readers Bookshop — online store

The shop's full range became reachable from outside its walls. Discovery no longer depends on standing in the store and asking a bookseller — the curated shelves and author pages do that job online, at a scale no physical branch could display.

16,000+ titles live across 75 categories
English and Arabic catalogues in one store
Browse-by-author pages for 70+ authors
Curated collections: New Titles, BookTok, Readers Recommends

The challenge we walked into

A bookshop's catalogue is its identity, and Readers carries more than sixteen thousand titles in two languages, from 0-3 picture books to Arabic philosophy. At that scale the problem stops being a product list and becomes navigation: a parent buying for an eight-year-old, a reader following a BookTok recommendation, and someone looking for translated Arabic literature all need different routes through the same shelves.

What we did about it

The store is organised the way readers actually shop rather than the way stock is filed: children's fiction banded by reading age, a full Arabic section with its own category tree, browse-by-author pages, and curated shelves like New Titles, BookTok, Readers Recommends and Reading Is Resistance sitting beside the genre hierarchy. Wishlists, gift cards, gift wrapping and customer accounts support the browse-now, buy-later rhythm that book buying follows, and every product page carries ISBN and live availability.

Why the client is happy

The shop's full range became reachable from outside its walls. Discovery no longer depends on standing in the store and asking a bookseller — the curated shelves and author pages do that job online, at a scale no physical branch could display.

Results

What it produced.

16,000+ titles live across 75 categories

English and Arabic catalogues in one store

Browse-by-author pages for 70+ authors

Curated collections: New Titles, BookTok, Readers Recommends

Gift cards, gift wrapping, wishlists and customer accounts

What we delivered

The services behind this project.

E-commerce development Catalogue architecture UI/UX design Hosting and infrastructure

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