ELB Brighton (The English Language Bookshop Brighton) is one of the UK's leading specialist ELT booksellers. We supply books and ELT materials worldwide to an ever increasing customer base of schools, colleges, universities, bookshops and individual teachers.

ELB Brighton is owned and staffed by experienced ELT professionals with backgrounds in teaching, teacher-training, materials development and course book writing. We carry large stocks of all major ELT titles and an extensive range of teacher training & applied linguistics titles.

We try to keep the online ordering system as simple and as accessible as possible.

We post password protected pages on our web site for each of the institutions we run the system for. Trainees simply:

Go online to the ELB web site (http://www.elb-brighton.com)

Follow the links from the Ordering Books icon on our home page

Select the name of the institution with whom they are studying

Choose the course they are doing

Place orders from the booklist/order form online

It's an easy process and ELB takes care of all the setting up and creating orders forms etc. All you need to do is:

Supply ELB with a copy of the set booklist for the course(s) you are running.

The booklists can be broken down into modules, compulsory reading, recommended reading or whatever format you prefer.

We will create a 'master' booklist in an order form format giving details of the titles, the list price and the discounted ELB price. All the relevant contact & payment information is on the form, so students who do not have access to the internet can complete the form, return it to ELB and get their books. You can use this form as a photocopy master and pass it on to students as they enrol.

We also post a web-based version of the booklist on an institution specific area of our web site. Students access this page using a username (typically the name of the institution) and password. The user name and password are given on the 'master' booklist document. Users without the password (i.e. those who have not enrolled on your courses) cannot access the page. If a students loses the password, there is an email link on the page to your institution where password details can be requested.

The web based order page lists all the books and orders can be placed from the same page. Students simply give their credit cards details, delivery address and email address. The form is then transmitted, securely to ELB where it is processed and the books supplied.

We also add links from the ELB web site to your website so the casual browser or anyone looking for a course can access your web site via ELB Brighton.

Certainly. Click on the link below which will take you the Distance Learning pages of the ELB web site. Once there, click on the link ELB Brighton.

click here to view a sample order page

Again we try to be as flexible as possible by making payment easy and accessible.

We accept payment by:

VISA

Mastercard

Bank Transfer (all bank charges must be paid for by the customer)

Sterling cheque drawn on a UK bank

Cheque in Euros (UK banks are currently imposing a £5 transaction charge on any payments made this way. All transaction charges must be paid for by the customer)

We charge the UK list price for books and offer between 10 - 15% discount to your students off that price. This discount on academic books more than competes with online booksellers like Amazon & BOL.

ELB Brighton, by liaising with our institutional customers, carries stock for specific booklists so turnaround time on orders is kept to a minimum. We will inform you if a book goes into reprint, becomes a print-on-demand title or becomes unexpectedly unavailable so you can amend your modules & training programmes.

We also have a specific person within ELB who is responsible for all book orders from students on distance learning/teacher training courses ensuring they get the best possible service. It also ensures that any problems can be dealt with effectively and in person, rather than by an anonymous member of staff or a computer-based tracking system.

That is entirely up to you. Some institutions prefer to have their booklist on password-protected pages, others are happy for anyone browsing on the ELB web site to see their booklist. We can put an institution's book list & order form on a page that is protected by a user name and password, so the only people accessing your page on the ELB web site are students enrolled on one of your courses.

The user name is usually the name of the institution and the password can be allocated by ELB or agreed upon as we're setting up the web pages.

We've found from experience that many institutions in a competitive, international market such as distance learning, prefer to restrict specific information about courses to people who have enrolled on or are already participating in a course/training programme. The decision about whether to password protect your booklist/order form pages on the ELB web site is entirely yours and can be made or changed at any time.

If you would like to offer the ELB online service to your trainees, please contact

anthony.forrester@elb-brighton.com