ABEBOOKS.COM NAMED AS ONE OF BC'S TOP 100 TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
3rd November 2000
(Victoria, BC) - AbeBooks.com has been named one of BC's
Top 100 Technology companies, in an annual ranking by T-Net British
Columbia of the province's most profitable high-tech companies.
AbeBooks.com is the world's leading source of out-of-print and
hard-to-find books, with over 22 million volumes listed for sale.
AbeBooks.com is a private Internet company that
connects consumers with books from over 6,800 independent booksellers
around the world. Booksellers upload their inventories of rare,
used, and out-of-print books to abebooks.com's database, while
abebooks takes care of the customer support, technological engineering,
marketing, and business development that make the web site a smashing
success.
"Today, the province is a hotbed for new ideas
- there are hundreds of high tech companies in B.C. with countless
opportunities for our next generation. The T-Net Awards prove
that B.C. is a powerful contender in the high-tech sector, and
that it will benefit from a prosperous high-tech economy for years
to come," company president Keith Waters said. "Over
the five years since our inception, we've demonstrated that the
Internet is a great place to do business. We're pleased to be
recognized along with the province's other heavyweights."
Rankings for the awards are based on revenues for
the previous year, 1999. AbeBooks ranks in the top 2 per cent
of all technology companies in B.C., as ranked by revenue. The
book site currently receives an average of more than 1 million
hits per day.The Victoria-grown site adds this award to a long
list of achievements, including being named as Forbes' Favourite
in the Rare Books category this spring.
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About AbeBooks.com
AbeBooks is the world's largest book site, listing over 35 million
books. With offices in Canada and Germany, abebooks provides independent
booksellers with business support, technological infrastructure
and international marketing, enabling booksellers of any size
to compete on an equal footing with book superstores. Through
its acquisition of Germany's JustBooks, now abebooks Europe, the
company now serves over 10,000 member booksellers worldwide via
web sites in English, German, and French. AbeBooks was launched
on the Internet in May of 1996 and offers consumers the most complete
collection of rare, used, and out-of-print books available anywhere.
About T-NET (www.bctechnology.com)
T-Net British Columbia a portal web site for the high tech industry
in BC. The T-Net Awards were introduced in 1999 to recognize BC's
top 100 technology companies and benchmark overall growth in the
BC technology industry.
Contact
Richard Davies, PR & Publicity Mgr., AbeBooks.com
Ph: 250-412-3238
rdavies@abebooks.com
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