A NEW RESOURCE FOR WORLD-CLASS READERS!
16th December 2000
(Victoria, BC) - Get lost in a great book on your next vacation!
AbeBooks.com announces a new resource for travelers, offering
innovative reading options, easy access to millions of out-of-the-ordinary
books online, and a host of inside information for travelers.
AbeBooks.com is the world's largest community of online booksellers,
with over 24 million out-of-print, rare and secondhand titles.
The new resource site is offered as a result of
a partnership between the book site, AbeBooks.com, and the U.S.-based
travel site, BootsnAll.com. The site will offer recommendations
for books that go beyond the usual in-store selection, including
travel classics, original ideas travel reading, and authors to
take on the trip, as well as a list of recommended travel guides.
The new site will also include travel stories, photographs, travelogues,
and articles from BootsnAll's own travel writers. A contest is
planned to launch the site in late 2000.
Learn more about other cultures and world history
with rare travel books, or just relax on a faraway beach with
a great escape story. Whatever you desire, you'll find an unprecedented
selection of books from all over the world at AbeBooks.com. For
historical stories, read an eye witness account of the siege and
capitulation of Rhodes, or thumb through Observations upon the
Pelopponesus and Greek Islands, written in 1829. Interested in
Africa? Try Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter
Ammon or Ismailia: A narrative of the expedition to Central Africa
for the suppression of the slave trade. A seasoned traveler? Enjoy
The Unfortunate Traveller and other works, Muddling through in
Madagascar, or Scenes of Modern Travel and Adventure. You can
even track down independent booksellers in far-off lands. With
this great resource, it's easier than ever to find the perfect
book for your next destination.
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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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