Introducing Cathy Waters…
Next week we will have several guest postings from Cathy Waters - one of the four original founders of AbeBooks.com. Today, Cathy has come full circle and once again runs a used bookstore just like she did when AbeBooks was created. She owns Grafton Books - a wonderful antiquarian bookshop in Victoria that’s a couple of miles away from our office.
Although Cathy and her husband Keith have not been officially involved with AbeBooks since 2003, we remain in touch. The founders still attend the AbeBooks’ Christmas party, Cathy is frequently interviewed by the media about being a dotcom entrepreneur and she visits our office. Oh, and Grafton Books is an AbeBooks seller too.
No-one here at AbeBooks has forgotten that Cathy and Keith Waters and Rick and Vivian Pura built an incredible foundation, and we simply wouldn’t be here today without them. They started AbeBooks while holding down other jobs and built, from scratch, a company that changed the way used books are bought and sold.