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What is Vltava?
Vltava - the largest Czech Internet shop with books, music, mp3, multimedia and films offering customers a chance to pick and order from an extended range of titles - and from anywhere around the world. The only thing you need to do is to step across into the web interface and you can shop. Then just make your choice from five possible ways of payment (on-line payment from your account in the Expandia Bank, Cash On Delivery, Postal Money Order, payment card or bank transfer) and then just wait for your postman to bring your package to your door.
Vltava was also the first Czech department store, which accepted the safest and fastest way of payment on Internet nowadays - through Expandia Bank.
How does Vltava operate?
Vltava is not a fictitious web.
The virtual shop is being managed by a team of managers, programmers, and editorial staff, who work hard to make Vltava better and better every day and offer customers the best services.
The Vltava Internet shop runs on Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 above Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 database.
What can Vltava offer you?
It is already the third year that Vltava is offering its customers a chance to shop through the Internet. The original shy attempt to support Computer Press's own book production through Internet was accepted with a great success. The offer of specialist literature was slowly being enlarged by titles from fiction literature, educational literature, fantasy, etc. At the moment Vltava contains virtually a complete range of the current Czech book production. Vltava offers a fully complete range of computer literature and nearly complete in other specialist literature, in other fields the range is being filled out all the time. Vltava at the moment has 17.000 titles in Czech literature. Vltava is unique in the offer of English literature, especially a complete range of English-American literature of all fields - circa 70.000 titles.
Since July 1999, you can browse a wide choice of videocasettes and multimedia CD-ROMs.
Our video section offers complete production of BONTON and CENTRUM ČESKÉHO VIDEA. Each videocassette or DVD is accompanied by brief summary of contents and related information. This section will be expanded soon.
CD-ROM section offers computer games, applications, encyclopaedia and other multimedia titles produced by major Czech manufacturers. Once again, annotations and all necessary data can be searched through.
Vltava is not just a shop
Besides books, CD's, MP3, videocasettes and multimedia on Vltava you will also find something interesting to read - Vltava Magazine - reviews, news from the world of culture, feature columns, comments, reports, interviews with interesting people from cultural backgrounds. In the future Vltava will become a sought after source of reviews. The Magazine is not the only place where you can enjoy reading. The shop is full of articles and reviews from literature, music and film. Vltava will become a cultural centre of the Czech Internet.
Advantages of shopping in Vltava
One of the advantages of shopping in Vltava is besides the comfort (you don't need to go anywhere, you can shop night and day), range, which no "brick" shop can ever have, and comprehensive information about books, CD's, films and CD-ROMs (annotation), also better prices - you can always receive a minimum discount of 10%, but sometimes up to 60%.
Frequency of visits to Vltava
Daily visits of approx. 2.000 people prove customer satisfaction with Vltava. The number of potential customers is growing every day - monthly circa 600 new clients interested in virtual shopping visit Vltava. This fact is for Vltava a great challenge to keep improving and to offer it's customers maximum.
Books for everyone in Vltava
Vltava has been orientated mostly for the Czech market - this means that on the web you will only find Czech language version. But not just Czech citizens are interested in Czech literature. There are students, Czechs working abroad or living outside the country, former emigrants, linguists, etc. Vltava for them is the only way how to attain Czech books.
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