ABEBOOKS.COM AIMS AT COLLEGE CROWD WITH NEW WEB PARTNER
10th January 2000
(Victoria, BC) - AbeBooks.com, the world's largest web-based
network of independent booksellers, announces a joint venture
with U.S.-based 21 North Main (www.21northmain.com).
The new partnership will allow abebooks.com's over
5,200 booksellers to reach the lucrative college and university
library market - the largest single used-book market segment,
constituting a third or more of the total market volume annually.
It will also open a new resource for librarians to find the books
they need, as they will draw on abebooks.com's inventory of more
than 18 million listings.
Without additional work, dealers will benefit from
increased exposure, with two companies working to promote their
books. Dealers will also enjoy regular access to the want lists
of the largest research libraries in the U.S. abebooks.com and
21 North Main will become the preferred source for hard-to-find
books for college and university librarians through a combination
of cutting-edge technologies, unmatched inventory, and the unrivaled
abebooks.com dealer network.
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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.
Contacts
Richard Davies, PR & Publicity Mgr., AbeBooks.com
Ph: 250-412-3238
rdavies@abebooks.com
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