ABEBOOKS.COM HITS 20 MILLION MARK
12th July 2000
(Victoria, BC) - AbeBooks.com today announces an unprecedented
achievement in selection, with more than 20 million books listed
on its Web site. The Internet-based book company is growing at
a rate that surpasses any other book site. For book buyers, this
mark means an unmatched selection of books, where virtually any
title can be found. From collector's items to the latest bestsellers,
abebooks.com is the best bet to find every title. The huge inventory
of books on the abebooks.com Web site is uploaded from the computers
of more than 6,300 independent used booksellers from around the
world. abebooks.com has come a long way in the past five years
- what once began as a listing service for booksellers based in
Victoria, British Columbia, has developed into the Internet's
largest source of hard to find books.
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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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