LEADING ONLINE BOOK COMPANY TO DEMONSTRATE NEW BOOKSELLING VENTURE
IN SEATTLE
18th September 2000
(Victoria, BC) - The Internet's largest source of hard-to-find
books, abebooks.com will unveil a new direction for online book
commerce at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, September 22 and
23, 2000. AbeBooks.com's new product will enable shoppers in Seattle's
bricks-and-mortar bookstores to access the world's largest web-based
inventory of books, coming from a network of more than 6,500 booksellers
across the planet.
Any bookstore in Seattle may use abebooks.com's
new BookCase product to assist in-store customers in finding and
purchasing out-of-print and hard-to-find books. This will help
all bookstores increase their inventory, selection and customer
satisfaction, without paying extra costs for storage or program
participation. The BookCase product is currently in a test phase
in British Columbia, Canada and will be launched in bookstores
across North America this winter.
AbeBooks.com will be holding in-booth seminars on
the new BookCase product for the general public and interested
booksellers. Seminar times are as follows: · What's New
at abebooks.com: BookCases, Web Products, and Updates 5pm: Friday,
September 22nd 12pm and 4 pm: Saturday, September 23 ·
Sell Your Books Through abebooks.com 7pm: Friday, September 22nd
2pm: Saturday, September 23rd.
At the fair, abebooks.com will be on hand as a resource
for information on the Internet book industry. AbeBooks.com's
Marketing and Business Development Officer, Derek MacNeil will
be available to answer the media's questions about Internet bookselling
and book collecting, the used book industry, e-commerce, and searching
for books on our system (for the buying public).
To speak with Derek, members of the media may wish
to set up an appointment through abebooks.com's media contact
at (250) 412-3258. To pre-register to attend free seminars, please
email media@abebooks.com. We welcome all Seattle media to visit
us at this exciting event! If assistance is needed to enter the
event, please contact abebooks.com at the number listed below.
For more information on the Seattle Antiquarian
Book Fair, please refer to the "Abe On The Road" section
on the abebooks.com homepage (www.abebooks.com).
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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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