The bookshop is powered by the Amazon.com, so many of its features may already be familiar to you. It has been designed with topics that are in some cases hand edited by us, or where we have populated the topics using automated search tools to give our readers broader choices that they can browse by topic, or use the search field above to refine their selections. I've also made the entire inventory of books and magazines on every topic available through the "browse & search all" categories. The search page further opens up the entire product line on Amazon.com for browsing. We welcome any product suggestions or feedback that you may have to bookshop@comitini.com. Please visit Amazon's help page if you have any questions about your order.

What is Corcoran Cares?

Corcoran Cares is the name of the non-profit, in house, organization created to support dozens of charitable and philanthropic organizations within the communities Corcoran serves. It is our personal, tangible and meaningful way to help to sustain our pledge to improving the quality of life in these communities… the places where we live and work.

Each time you see the Corcoran Cares logo on an employee or agent’s web page, it means that that individual has made a personal, financial commitment to support the many charitable organizations served under the Corcoran Cares umbrella. At the corporate level, Corcoran makes a matching gift contribution to each participating employee or agents’ efforts. For the Corcoran Cares recipients these contributions become more than just a check. They become a deposit in their future.

embedding and linking to the bookshop

In an effort to more widely expose and leverage the power of our network, I've decided to invite our agents, to publish or link to the bookshop pages on the web. You can now link to the shop, or it can be integrated and embedded in any Web page using the code I'm publishing below. This means that if you have a Web site, facebook, myspace page or email signature (links only), and would like to send visitors to the bookshop, it is as simple as adding a line of code

There are three portals into the shop that you can access. I've created two versions of the bookshop (real estate focused and general interest) and am providing an Amazon search box too. You'll find the simple links and the code in red italics for placing the site as an embedded inline frame below. The links are by far the easiest way to get your friends and family involved. The latter method will permit you to seamlessly integrate the bookshop into a Web page of your own design if you wish and have the resources to do so. Linking to it can be as simple as providing the Web address, or use the code to embed it on any Web page.

Linking to it can be as simple as providing the Web address, or use the code to embed it on any Web page. Please note that there is no need to do any very fancy tech tricks here to simply link to the page. Hard as I tried to keep it simple, the explanation below does get a little more technical for embedded pages. The page already exists and runs off Amazon.com's servers. I'm happy to provide these snippets of code below, and it is basically a cut and paste operation, but some basic understanding of HTML is needed. Sorry, but I can't personally provide deep tech support on this. Participants do not need to do anything connected with orders or fulfillment, it is all handled by Amazon. Please send us an email if you are posting a link, we'd love to know.

The distributed version is the core embedded page of the shop without the comitini.com blog site navigation surrounding it. Just to give you an idea of how this can work, here is the shop's stand alone page on Amazon's server. Here is what the bookshop looks like when it is "included" using an iframe where it is surrounded by my site navigation. This is what the code below provides.

the real estate bookshop

This is the exact version which appears on comitini.com and contains hand edited selections on Real Estate, New York City, Urban Planning, Architecture, Home Design, etc.. It also has search driven categories, including the complete inventory of books on Amazon. As it is a part of my site, this version may iterate over time and has a navigational link for searching products which links to comitini.com. This may be viewed as a stand alone Web page or embedded in a page of your own design.

link: This is probably the easiest way to provide a link to the page for social networking sites like facebook and myspace or to add it to your email signature. Here is the simple page link code, which should yield a link like this: the bookstore

<a href="http://astore.amazon.com/comitini_integrated-20">the bookshop<a>

embed: To place the bookstore on a Web page, use this code to iframe the site. Here's the cut and paste code which should be placed somewhere between the <body></body> tags. It should render a basic page that looks like this.

<iframe src="http://astore.amazon.com/comitini_integrated-20" width="90%" height="4000" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

the general interest bookshop

This is the exact version which appears on comitini.com and contains hand edited selections on New York, Urban Planning, Architecture, Home Design, etc.. This will iterate over time. It also has search driven categories, including the complete inventory of books on Amazon. It does contain some navigational links back to my site as required for that context, if you prefer not to have that then you should use the general interest bookshop. This may be viewed as a stand alone web page or embedded in a page of your own design.

link:This is probably the easiest way to provide a link to the page for social networking sites like facebook and myspace or to add it to your email signature. Here is the simple page link code, which should yield a link like this: the bookstore

<a href="http://astore.amazon.com/hopshop-20">the bookshop<a>

embed: To place the bookstore on a Web page, use this code to iframe the site. Here's the cut and paste code which should be placed somewhere between the <body></body> tags. It should render a basic page that looks like this.

<iframe src="http://astore.amazon.com/hopshop-20" width="90%" height="4000" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

amazon search tool

This is a standard search box that opens up to the entire inventory of all products on Amazon. This is a "widget", not a stand alone page, and must be placed on a web page to work. There is a generic page containing the widget on my server and you can link to it there. This tool invokes the standard Amazon.com interface not the bookshop.

link: This is probably the easiest way to provide a link to the page for social networking sites like facebook and myspace or to add it to your email signature. Here is the simple page link code, which should yield a link like this: search for products on Amazon.com

<a href="http://www.comitini.com/bookshop_search_generic.html">search for products on Amazon.com</a>

embed: To place the search tool on a Web page, use this code to iframe it. Here's the cut and paste code which should be placed somewhere between the <body></body> tags. It should render on a page of your own design that includes the search box only, from this sample page running on my server.

<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=hopshop-20&o=1&p=27&l=qs1&f=ifr" width="180" height="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>