Press Releases
2012
06/09/2012 - AbeBooks Hosts Hackathon for UVic Engineering Students
2011
02/03/2011 - AbeBooks Signs Agreement to Acquire ZVAB.com
2010
15/09/2010 - AbeBooks.com to Stage Careers Open House on 21 September
25/05/2010 - Announcing the Channel Program to Sell on Amazon
2009
22/07/2009 - Attention Job-Seekers - AbeBooks' Customer Support Department to Stage Open House on July 29
20/05/2009 - Claremont Review writing contest winners announced
16/04/2009 - AbeBooks’ employee set for trip of a lifetime
2008
12/01/2008 - Amazon.com Acquires AbeBooks
11/18/2008 - Leather-bound novels & carrying case up for grabs in charity auction
11/11/2008 - Obama fans paying up to $5,500 for books signed by President-elect
10/01/2008 - AbeBooks introduces podcast player for booklovers 08/07/2008 - Students still prefer traditional textbooks reveals poll
08/01/2008 - Amazon.com to acquire AbeBooks
06/26/2008 - Gojaba.com brings no frills internet bookselling to Brazil
04/14/2008 - AbeBooks.it launched to serve Italians passionate about books
04/09/2008 - Chrislands - an online bookstore provider - acquired by AbeBooks.com
02/20/2008 - Calling All Kids - Create your own literary masterpiece with Story Laboratory
02/05/2008 - AbeBooks.com targets Sweden & Russia with new online marketplace for used books
2007
12/27/2007 - Seven Habits of Effective People still an effective bestseller in the used book business
12/18/2007 -
Rushdie, Cookery, Witchcraft & Sci-Fi - What big spenders buy for Christmas
12/10/2007 -
AbeBooks.com launches year-round textbook buy-back service
12/03/2007 -
Charity Auction features signed Deathly Hallows & rare Margaret Atwood poetry book
11/13/2007 -
Demand For Signed Copies of The Kite Runner Push Prices Sky-High
11/01/2007 -
Calling All Kids - Create a Literary Masterpiece at Wordstock Festival
10/31/2007 -
AbeBooks.com Restructures Management as COO Boris Wertz Departs
10/18/2007 -
Award-Winning Ecommerce Pioneer Invites Job-Seekers to Open House
10/10/2007 -
Calling All Kids - Create a Literary Masterpiece at the Writers Festival
09/10/2007 -
Landmark 1955 Book About Homosexuality Returns to Bestseller List
08/30/2007 - One-Off
Collection of 14 Signed Bestsellers to be Auctioned Off For Charity
08/02/2007 - Compare
Textbook Prices in Seconds on Your Cell-Phone
06/14/2007 - Buyers Scramble for Original Editions of ‘The Highfield Mole’
– The Next Harry Potter
06/08/2007 - Research
Reveals Baby Boomers Drive Online Used Bookselling in US
05/10/2007 - Salute the Boy Wizard With Poetry & Win Unique Harry Potter Bookshelf
05/02/2007 - Software Journals Sell for $9,652 Ahead of James Joyce & Wilfred Owen
03/08/2007 - New Section at AbeBooks.com Showcases the Pottermania Phenonenon
03/05/2007 - AbeBooks.com Launches Book Recommendation System Based On the Collections of LibraryThing.com Members
02/21/2007 - Stephen King’s Recommendation Sends Unknown Author To No.1 On Bestseller List
02/13/2007 - Cat in the Hat Tops Bestseller List - 50 Years After its Release
01/29/2007 - AbeBooks Launches Specialist Sections for Science Fiction & Fantasy
01/24/2007 - Forgotten memoir by Celebrity Big Brother's Dirk Benedict is a Secondhand Bestseller in the UK
01/17/2007 - Online Textbook Sales Up By Over 30% As Students Hunt for Cheap Books
2006
12/19/2006 - Booklovers benefit as IberLibro.com's Unique Inventory of Spanish Books is Integrated into AbeBooks.com Database
12/12/2006 - Early Birds Catch Best Textbook Bargains as Online Prices Fall
12/04/2006 - Unique Signed Special Edition of Madame Bovary Designed by Manolo Blahnik in Charity Auction
11/17/2006 - Buyers & Booksellers Unite in Revulsion Against OJ's Book, According to Polls
11/15/2006 - Holiday Books From Literary Legends to Inspire the Bibliophile and Break the Bank
11/03/2006 - Bestsellers & Most Expensive Books Sold on AbeBooks.com - October 2006
10/18/2006 - The Zombie Survival Guide and Vampire Hunter's Handbook - Useful Halloween Reading From AbeBooks.com
10/04/2006 - AbeBooks.com's Online Inventory Hits 100 Million Books
09/05/2006 - College Students Cash in as Online Textbook Prices Fall
08/09/2006 - Advancements in Beer Bongology - AbeBooks.com Targets Student Textbook Market with Latest Fake 'Not-Book'
08/08/2006 - Coil Up...with a Snakeskin Book
07/24/2006 - Avid Readers Predict Leaks will Spoil Final Harry Potter Book
07/12/2006 - Movie Revives Interest in the Hidden Treasure of Forgotten Pirate Books
06/08/2006 - Chicken or Beef? The World's Best Loved Airline Recipes - A 'Not-Book' to Celebrate 10 Years of AbeBooks.com
06/06/2006 - Internet Pioneer AbeBooks.com Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
05/16/2006 - AbeBooks.com Acquires Major Stake in LibraryThing.com - A Social Networking Site for Bibliophiles
05/11//2006 - A Signed Da Vinci Code Sells for Record Price of $4,260 on AbeBooks.com
04/25/2006 - To Kill A Mockingbird Poll - 31% Have Read Classic Novel 5 Times or More
04/12/2006 - Da Vinci Code Price-Tag Reaches $4,000 For Signed Copy
04/04/2006 - Dan Brown is Innocent According to Poll on AbeBooks.com
02/27/2006 - AbeBooks.com Acquires Fillz - An Online Book Inventory and Order Management Company
02/16/2006 - AbeBooks.com Appoints John Chase as Chief Financial Officer
02/13/2006 - A New Chapter for AbeBooks.com With Rethink Named as its First Ad Agency
02/06/2006 - Calling All Young Writers - Claremount Review Magazine Launches 2006 Writing Contest
01/30/2006 - AbeBooks.com to Host Bookseller Summit at HQ on 3 February
01/06/2006 - Poll Reveals Avid Readers Feel Betrayed Over Alleged Fabrications in James Frey's A Million Little Pieces Bestseller
2005
11/7/2005 - Rapid Growth of AbeBooks.com Continues with Bookfinder.com Acquisition
10/19/2005 - AbeBooks Predicts Rapid Growth for Europe's Used Book Market as Report Reveals Americans Spent $2.2 Billion on Used Books in 2004
09/30/2005 - Canada's "Random Acts of Poetry" Returns for a Second Performance and Extends Across the Atlantic into the UK
08/26/2005 - Tips for Buying Cheap College Textbooks Online
08/17/2005 - Students Going Online to Save Money on Textbooks
07/22/2005 - Rare Book Experts Ponder What the Future Holds for Hard-to-find Harry Potter Editions
06/02/2005 - Calling all Real-Life Harry Potters! Ordinary People with an Extraordinary Name Invited to Tell Their Stories on AbeBooks.com
06/02/2005 - New Books Business Booms at AbeBooks.com
04/29/2005 - AbeBooks.com Celebrates its 9th Birthday With a Family of Millions
04/27/2005 - AbeBooks.com Closes Partnership with Biblioz.com
04/22/2005 - Nancy Drew Celebrates 75 Years of Mystery Solving but Remains Forever Young to her Fans
04/12/2005 - Bookworms Cringe as Pamela Anderson Turns Over a New Leaf and Jones the Book Business
04/07/2005 - Hockey Poet Mourns Lost NHL Season with an "NH Elegy" to the Stanley Cup
03/18/2005 - Blackwell's and Tate Sign Partnership Deals as AbeBooks.com Continues to Expand its Online Marketplace into New Books
02/21/2005 - Joyce Remains King of the Irish Writers but Avid Readers Still Cannot Finish Ulysses
02/21/2005 - Interest in Gonzo Literature Sparked by Hunter S. Thompson's Death
02/15/2005 - AbeBooks.com Launches Rare Book Valuation Service to Put a Price on the Treasures in Your Attic
02/11/2005 - First Editions of Daschiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon on the Most Wanted List as 75th Anniversary Approaches
02/04/2005 - Bombproof Your Horse & Knitting with Dog Hair - Two Nominations for the World's Weirdest Book on AbeBooks.com
02/02/2005 - A Sign of the Times – Margaret Atwood's Virtual Autograph Machine Gets the Thumbs Down in AbeBooks.com Visitor Poll
01/27/2005 - Search Begins for New Literary Talent as AbeBooks Sponsors Claremont Review's Annual Writing Contest
01/26/2005 - Increased Numbers of Students Take Their Search for Cut-Price Used Textbooks on to the Internet with AbeBooks.com
01/24/2005 - Works of Robert Burns Attract Hefty Price-Tags in Rare Book Trade Around the World
01/24/2005 - Children’s Books in the Spotlight as AbeBooks Celebrates Canada's Family Literacy Day with Recommended Reading List
01/12/2005 - AbeBooks & Brodart Join to Improve Book Care Standards
2004
10/26/2004 - AbeBooks Announces Significant Expansion into the Spanish Market
10/07/2004 - Poets Across Canada Hit the Streets to Commit "Random Acts of Poetry" During Week Long Celebration
09/16/2004 - Skyrocketing Demand for Used Textbooks Create Unprecedented Boom for Online Booksellers
09/09/2004 - Critics Said the Web Would Destroy Small Booksellers But the Internet Has Actually Given Them a New Lease on Life, Says Richard Adams
08/31/2004 - AbeBooks.com Invites All Writers in the 3-Day Novel Contest to Chat Online
07/29/2004 - Survey Shows Female Students Would Buy Books Recommended by John Kerry, While More Males Would Buy Books Recommended by George W. Bush
07/14/2004 - AbeBooks.com Launches Australian and New Zealand Site to Help "Down Under" Folks Buy and Sell Books Online
06/24/2004 - Race to Sell Signed Copies of Clinton Book Rewards Bookssellers on AbeBooks.com
06/23/2004 - AbeBooks Selects Agitar Software to Drive Quality of World's Largest Online Book Marketplace
06/06/2004 - True Signed First Editions of Ronald Reagan's Autobiography An American Life Appear on AbeBooks.com Priced to $4,000
06/04/2004 - The World's Largest Online Marketplace for Used Books Officially Opens its Doors to New Books
05/28/2004 - Secondhand and Rare Book Sellers Are the "Heart" of Hay-On-Wye Festival
05/17/2004 - AbeBooks Selects Endeca to Help Book Buyers Search and Browse World's Largest Online Book Marketplace
05/13/2004 - AbeBooks Showcases Recent Findings: Used Book Sales are Soaring Online
05/05/2004 - AbeBooks Celebrates 8th Birthday in Sidney, British Columbia - One of Canada's Official Booktowns
05/01/2004 - AbeBooks Celebrates Local Publishing Excellence with Sponsorship of 20th Annual British Columbia Book Prizes
04/24/2004 - Books and Birthday Cake: AbeBooks.com - the World's Largest Online Marketplace for Books - Celebrates 8th Birthday at L.A. Festival with Cake and Draw for Trip to NY
04/20/2004 - Happy Birthday Bill: Readers
Celebrate William Shakespeare's Four-Hundred-and-Fortieth Birthday
- But Won't Pay $2 Million For a Copy of Hamlet
03/12/2004 - From High Street To High
Tech: Oxfam To Sell Secondhand Books Online Via AbeBooks.co.uk
02/04/2004 - AbeBooks.com Launches “Libros
En Español” To Serve Those Who Read, Sell Or Collect
Spanish-Language Books And Authors
01/12/2004 - "Bag of Books"
Price Comparison Shows Used Books Can Be Purchased For Up To 90%
Less On AbeBooks.com
2003
12/17/03 - AbeBooks Announces "Win
Your Tuition" Contest winners
12/09/03 - World Summit Awards Media
Kit
12/09/03 - AbeBooks.com Recognized at
United Nations World Summit Awards in Geneva as Top E-Business
Website Worldwide
12/03/03 - AbeBooks Survey Reveals Secondhand
Doesn't Mean Secondclass When Giving Used Books at Christmas
12/01/03 - Be a Book Angel or a BookSleuth
this Holiday With AbeBooks and First Book
11/19/03 - AbeBooks Becomes the Largest
Book Site in the World by Listing its 50 Millionth Book
11/18/03 - Rare First Edition J.R.R.
Tolkein Book Listed at $126,480.00 on AbeBooks.com Alongside Exclusive
Article on Collecting Tolkein Books
11/6/03 - AbeBooks Launches Program to
Help Booksellers List Used Books For Sale On Amazon.ca
11/3/03 - AbeBooks Announces Promotion
of Boris Wertz to Chief Operating Officer
8/10/03 - AbeBooks Launches Online Forums
Where Booklovers Chat and Locate Long Lost Books
2/10/03 - Rare Copies of First Novel
by J.M. Coetzee Come on the Market After He Wins Nobel Prize for
Literature
12/08/03 - AbeBooks Announces Changes
to Senior Management
29/07/03 - AbeBooks Launches "Textbook
Central" to Serve Its Growing Community of Student Bookbuyers
15/07/03 - AbeBooks Launches HomeBase
2.3, the Popular Software Program for Managing Bookstore Inventories
or Home Library Collections
09/07/03 - Harry Potter Craze Ignites
the Used Book Market and Helps "Little" Booksellers Profit
19/06/03 - AbeBooks Introduces Service
Helping Booksellers List Used & Rare Books for Sale on eBay
25/04/03 - AbeBooks Shares the Secret
of Finding Rare Books Online, at the L.A. Times Festival of Books
31/03/03 - AbeBooks Tour "Across Europe
With 40 Million Books" Is A Success
11/03/03 - AbeBooks Launches Five-Country
European Bus Tour At The London Book Fair
03/02/03 - AbeBooks.com Chosen for Forbes
Magazine "Best of the Web" List, Third Year in a Row
31/01/2003 - AbeBooks Partners with
R.R. Bowker to Make Available Online Direct Ordering From AbeBooks
Via Booksinprint.com and Globalbooksinprint.com
2002
20/11/2002 - AbeBooks
"BookSleuth" Service Helps Readers Find Long Lost Books
10/10/2002 - AbeBooks
Joins With Amazon to Place Millions of Secondhand Books on Amazon.co.uk
and AbeBooks.de
10/10/2002 - AbeBooks
Presents Survey Results "Old Meets New: Antiquarians are
E-Commerce Trendsetters"
25/09/2002 - AbeBooks
Partners with Gardners to Offer 40 Million Secondhand, Rare and
Out-of-Print Books to UK Bookshops
10/09/2002 - AbeBooks
Creates Two New Senior Positions in Response to Recent International
Growth
05/09/2002 - AbeBooks
Offers Millions of Books Through Amazon Marketplace
28/08/2002 - AbeBooks
Launches UK Site with Mini Full of Books
28/02/2002 - AbeBooks
Launches German and French Web Sites
24/01/2002 - AbeBooks
Signs Content Agreement With Book Magazine
17/01/2002 - AbeBooks,
OCLC Team Up to Offer New Services to Libraries
09/01/2002 - AbeBooks
Teams Up With Yahoo! Warehouse
2001
29/11/2001 - AbeBooks
Signs Co-Sponsorship Agreement with Minnesota Public Radio’s
The Writer’s Almanac®
28/11/2001 - AbeBooks
Wins Highest Award From CIPA
19/11/2001 - AbeBooks
Honoured with Award of Excellence
03/10/2001 - AbeBooks.com
acquires Europe's JustBooks
24/09/2001 - AbeBooks.com
appoints new VP Finance, Board of Directors
19/09/2001 - Abelibrary.com
goes live!
19/07/2001 - AbeBooks.com
creates two senior positions
18/07/2001 - AbeBooks.com
offers book inventory through Half.com
25/05/2001 - AbeBooks.com
appoints new President and CEO
05/04/2001 - Looking for
great books on gardening?
20/03/2001 - High-tech
industry woos booksellers at London Book Fair
19/03/2001 - AbeBooks.com
recognized as a Bizrate.com "Gold Store" by online buyers
05/02/2001 - AbeBooks.com
to release HomeBase2.1 with ISBN Lookup
22/01/2001 - Where do
your customers find the books that aren't in your bookstore?
17/01/2001 - Seminars
For Book Lovers
16/01/2001 - World Congress
on E-Commerce: Booksellers set trends on the Internet
2000
20/12/2000 - AbeBooks.com
announces partnership with SF Site
16/12/2000 - A new resource
for world-class readers!
21/11/2000 - Map and Print
enthusiasts find a home at abebooks.com
17/11/2000 - Christmas
shopping has a fairytale ending at abebooks.com
3/11/2000 - AbeBooks.com
named as one of BC's Top 100 Technology Companies
30/10/2000 - AbeBooks.com
announces strategic alliance with key book site in France
17/10/2000 - AbeBooks.com
revives a great love for old books in Santa Monica
11/10/2000 - AbeBooks.com
announces new venture in Australia
18/09/2000 - Leading online
book company to demonstrate new bookselling venture in Seattle
31/08/2000 - AbeBooks.com
partners with Bookstore and University Students
28/07/2000 - Booksellers
On Board with Library Program in UK and Canada
12/07/2000 - AbeBooks.com
hits 20 million books mark
5/07/2000 - AbeBooks.com
opens strategic markets for UK and Canada
12/06/2000 - AbeBooks.com
Announces New Presence in Japan
5/06/2000 - All the booksellers
in the world… The hottest story in the world of books
10/01/2000 - AbeBooks.com
aims at college crowd with new web partner
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