Awards

BizRate.com Gold Honoree
BizRate.com has recognized abebooks as a company excelling in customer service for online retailers over the 2001 Holiday season. Abebooks is in the top 10% of web sites serving customers right, having met the rigid criteria set out by acheiving a rating above 4 out of 5 in BizRate.com's 6 service attributes.

CIPA
The Canadian Information Productivity Awards recognized abebooks.com as a company that has "transformed itself through effective management of information technology." Abebooks.com receives a CIPA Award of Excellence!

FORBES Favorite!
Forbes editors put thousands of Web sites to the Forbes "acid test," to determine superior sites for their latest Best of the Web issue; out of these 300, our site was deemed the "best of the best" in the rare books category.
"Shop here to compare prices. ABE bills itself as the world's largest network of independent booksellers: nearly 6,000 around the globe, meaning the most results per search...Consult handy glossaries and educational links deepen your book IQ. Unlike BarnesandNoble.com or Amazon.com (ABE supplies their rare book titles), ABE is not a broker. After you find, say, an inscribed copy of On the Road, ABE gives you the option of buying from its site, or contacting the bookseller directly for some old-fashioned haggling." - FORBES, Best of the Web, May 22, 2000.

BizRate.com Gold Star
BizRate.com, the #1 retail mall on the Web (according to Media Matrix), has approved abebooks.com as a customer-certified Gold Store Merchant. Based on unbiased customer-based ratings, BizRate.com ranks participating stores and lists them on the Store Ratings portion of their web site. These ratings also appear on Consumer Reports Online and in Consumer Reports magazine, as well as through top Internet portals such as Alta Vista, Go2Net, Go Network, Microsoft Networks and Snap. The ratings can be found here.

T-Net Top 100
Abebooks.com is proud to be named one of British Columbia's Top 100 technology companies for 2000! T-Net British Columbia introduced the T-Net 100 Awards to recognize BC's technology companies and to benchmark overall growth in the BC technology industry. The T-Net 100 honours BC's 100 largest private and publicly traded technology companies, as ranked by revenues.

Internet Tip of the Day
"If you're a book collector, or a bargain hunter, or if you need an out-of-print title, then try some of the used book search engines on the Web. These link together hundreds of small (and not-so-small) bookstores coast to coast and in other countries, letting you search hundreds of inventories for the right book. You can search title, author, publisher, and other attributes, like hardbound or paperback, dust jacket, first edition, etc. Condition is listed, too. You often get multiple hits for titles, giving you a choice of prices. Collectors can find what they need to round out their favorite authors. Bargain hunters can find used copies of out-of-print books. You can purchase the books online, too. Two of the best are ABE and Alibris. Both give you lots of search options."

GO.com Web Star
Our website has been selected as a GO.com Web Star, for the Arts & Humanities topic page in the GO.com Directory. Each site in the directory has been carefully reviewed, and our site was choosen to be one of the best for its subject area. See abebooks.com on Go.com

Golden Web Awards
Abebooks.com is proud to display our Golden Web Award presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers! "Congratulations! Your web-site has been reviewed and chosen to bear the 2000-2001 Golden Web Award in recognition of creativity, integrity and excellence on the Web." Visit the International Association of Web Masters and Designers Website

Merchant of the Week
Chosen by ZDTV as the best book site on the Web. "We are proud to announce abebooks.com as this week's 'Merchant of the Week' winner," said Gary Bolles, host of Working the Web. "Both UPS and ZDTV believe abebooks.com reflects both the opportunity and promise of the Internet for entrepreneurs and consumers and features all the best qualities of an effective online business." See our Merchant of the Week page and view our 30 second ad!

BookSpot
abebooks.com has been selected for inclusion on BookSpot, the book information portal of the Web. Their editorial team scours the Web for quality resources, and found our site to provide outstanding content. See abebooks.com on their used bookstore page!

4anything.com
The editors of the 4anything.com network have chosen abebooks.com to be one of the best of the web within the rare and vintage books category. These editors prioritize the most useful and relevant web sites, constantly refreshing their selections. See abebooks.com on the rare books page!

Canadian Book Ring
A web ring for Canadian sites which are primarily about books. These could be publishers, authors, booksellers, or literature sites. This ring was started by members of the BooksCanada mailing list, but is not limited to that membership.