ABEBOOKS.COM ANNOUNCES NEW PRESENCE IN JAPAN
12th June 2000
(Victoria, BC) - AbeBooks.com, the leading online source
for used and rare books, today announces a partnership with the
Japanese retailer, Akaikutsu. abebooks.com is a Victoria-based
Internet company and the world's largest network of independent
used booksellers.
The new partnership will give abebooks.com's over
6,300 independent booksellers (including 23 Victoria-based merchants)
a chance to reach lucrative markets in Japan - without extra work
or cost. Akaikutsu will market abebooks.com's English-language
books.
Independent booksellers rely on abebooks.com to
cut costs while reaching increasing numbers of online buyers.
Booksellers upload their inventories of used and rare books to
the abebooks.com search engine. Book buyers now have access to
more than 19 million books through the abebooks.com Web site.
AbeBooks.com already has partnerships with Internet heavyweights
eBay, Barnes & Noble and 21 North Main, which sells to the
college and university library market.
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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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