ABEBOOKS HONOURED WITH AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
19th November, 2001
(Victoria, BC) - AbeBooks.com, the world's leading source for
out-of-print and hard-to-find books, is being honored by the Canadian
Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) for excellence in information
technology (IT).
During a black-tie gala banquet this November in Toronto, abebooks.com
will be among other leading Canadian organizations recognized
for business excellence. CIPA awards businesses that have demonstrated
improved sales, organization, customer service and innovation.
A first-time winner, abebooks.com values CIPA's recognition.
"It's very flattering to be recognized by CIPA,"
said company CEO Brent James said. "This award symbolizes
our strive for efficiency and high quality of service. It's an
honour to be among the top Canadian IT companies for 2001."
CIPA was created in 1992 and is the largest business
awards program in Canada in the field of information management.
"AbeBooks.com and other winners of CIPA Awards
of Excellence are outstanding case studies that show senior executives
the benefits that strategic application of information technology
can bring," said Paul Jones, CIPA Chair. "AbeBooks.com
has made truly innovative use of information technology as a business-enabling
tool."
Founded in Victoria, B.C. abebooks.com's information
brokering business model provides independent sellers the capability
of collectively listing, selling and buying rare materials on
the Internet. By combining the inventories of member booksellers
into a common database and coupling it with advanced search capabilities,
e-commerce facilities, and partnership programs, abebooks.com
has become a dominant player in the Internet book 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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