Abebooks Bookseller Summit in Victoria on February 3rd, 2006

We will be hosting our first Bookseller Summit in our offices in Victoria, British Columbia on February 3rd 2006. All Abebooks booksellers are encouraged to attend. Attendees will have the chance to tour our operations, meet with our entire team and get a sneak peak at our product design plans. This is your opportunity to meet us in person to discuss key topics that are of critical importance to our bookseller community and to everyone’s continued success.

To help ensure that different voices are heard from across North America, we have invited some key opinion makers from our bookseller forums to attend as our special guests, and at our expense. We will be opening a folder in our Forums for you to post questions or topics that you would like these booksellers to discuss with us during their visit here, as they will be acting as representatives for booksellers unable to attend themselves. They have all agreed to share their experiences at our Seller Summit with you by writing a summary, which will be posted (unedited) into the Bookseller Forums after the event. We will also be hosting a special Roundtable Event with these booksellers to answer your questions on what they learned during the visit and to share the opinions and ideas discussed.

So, please join us in welcoming the following booksellers as our special guests to this event. You may recognize many of them from our Bookseller Forums:

• waytoomanybooks
• Treacherous_Cretin
• EdwinaNoone
• HeidiK
• bookseller
• OBOOKS
• idahojim
• mistyriver
• Dustwrappers
• LameWolfe

If you would like to join us in Victoria, meet the Abebooks staff as well as these fellow booksellers, and participate in the day’s discussions, please RSVP by December 15th, 2005 to booksellerdigest@abebooks.com. Please note that travel and accommodations for the open invitation are your responsibility. We look forward to this exciting event and to meeting many more of you in person!

Customer Survey Results

Between June and September 2005, we ran a customer survey on the Abebooks.com web site. We received over 15,000 completed surveys, helping us learn a great deal more about our (and your) customers and their shopping habits. Here are some of the findings we think you might find interesting.

Customers who came to Abebooks.com based on the recommendation of someone they trust are:
• 36% more likely to buy
• 45% more likely to be a frequent customer
• 68% more likely to spend above average when they do buy.

How often are customers visiting Abebooks.com?
• Once a month – 35%
• Once a week – 27%
• Every 6 months – 14%
• First time – 17%
• Daily – 7%

What do first-time visitors look like?
• Mostly women, aged 36 – 50
• About half are married and, of those, half have children

What are first-time visitors looking for? (respondents could choose more than one answer)
• Used books – 46%
• OOP – 31%
• Textbooks – 26%
• New books – 17%
• Rare books – 15%
• Collectible books – 12%

Reasons for shopping on the site today: (respondents could choose more than one answer)
• Competitive prices – 43%
• Large selection – 39%
• Search is easy to use – 23%
• Site focused on books – 22%
• Independent booksellers – 10%

Order Your FREE Winter Textbook Collateral

The winter back-to-school season is fast approaching and Abebooks.com is once again offering textbook-focused bookmarks and stickers free of charge to assist booksellers in targeting the student community. Use the materials to increase the brand awareness of Abebooks.com and bring even more students to the site to buy YOUR books.

Order your Abebooks.com textbook collateral while supplies last. Brand the bookmarks with your company's contact information for more exposure. Collaterals will be shipped out by mid-November in time for the back-to-school season.

Please send your orders to toolbox04@abebooks.com with your full mailing address and quantity required before November 1. You can order sets of 500, 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 bookmarks and stickers. Order 10,000 and we will brand them for you**!

**Please note: Because of large order volumes, sets of 10,000 branded bookmarks are reserved for booksellers with an inventory of over 15,000 books listed on the site.

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