Introduction

Welcome to the CTBN documentation. This documentation contains everything you need to know about the components of CTBN and how to use these components in order to make searching and acquiring the academic textbooks of your children every academic year straightforward.

We have tried to make it as concise as possible so that you do not spend a lot of time reading. Nonetheless, the information we have compiled in this documentation is complete and can be used as a reference when using CTBN.

Uniformity must be absolute

Before you start reading, every supplier, whether you are a Publisher (generally, publishers will not sell textbooks in detail to customers. They will instead wholesale to bookstores which will then sell. Publishers in the context of the CTBN refers to those publishers that have wholesaled and have a surplus which doesn't seem to be able to get out through wholesaling), a Bookstore, or an Individual, you should bear in mind that the only way everything works is if when it comes to the textbooks (their names, those who publish them, their unit price, their section etc.), there is A SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH!

This means that each and every one of you suppliers must conform to what the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education specifies about these academic textbooks. Their names, their unit prices, their class etc. The only category of suppliers that might be loosely tied to this rule (mostly in terms of the unit price of each textbook) is the Individual since the freshness of the textbooks they provide might vary.

Save any page as a PDF file

While you are using CTBN, there might come a time when you want to save a PDF copy of the page you are on, e.g., the list of available textbooks a particular search result has after launching a textbook group search as a customer (when you are on the textbook group topic, you will learn about this).

To do this, simply navigate to the page that you want to save as PDF, and depending on your device, do one of the things described below:

• Devices with small screens e.g., Android, iPhone, tablets etc: Tap the ⋮ that is usually found on the top-right corner of your browser, then Share. A dialogue box will open and you will have to choose Print. In the window that opens, you should choose Save as PDF, and save.
• Devices with large screens e.g., Laptop, Desktop: Press the key combination CTRL + P. This will open a print window that will show you the page to save as PDF. You can then click the Save button (it could be print, or download etc depending on the browser) to save a PDF copy of the page to your device.

This will come in handy especially for customers when they will have a list of textbooks they want to send as a PDF file to someone (as you will soon learn, CTBN also offers a way to share this list of textbooks via emails).

Enjoy your read

If this is your first time visiting this documentation, we advice you to read it in a chronological manner, from this page going downward, because we have arranged it for you already. Whether you are planning on being a supplier or a customer, we advice you to read the whole documentation as it will give you better insight into how everything works together. We hope that you can easily grasp how CTBN functions and start using it as soon as possible.