AbeBooks is the largest bookstore on line in the world with the historical figure on Internet of 100 million new, old, rare books and of occasion put on sale by more than 13.500 booksellers partners of the whole world. The company is based with Victoria with the Canada and has its European offices with Düsseldorf in Germany. Created in 1995, it launched its Web site in 1996. The salesmen pay a month's subscription to place their books on the sites AbeBooks, the variable price between 15 and 300 EURO, according to the number of pounds put on line. The Web site is available via five specific platforms per country: AbeBooks.fr for France, AbeBooks.com for the United States, AbeBooks.co.uk for the United Kingdom, AbeBooks.de for Germany and IberLibro.com for Spain.

Business model

The model is to support the independent bookstores vis-a-vis the chains and to provide a range of services which remain usually only available to large companies. These services make it possible the independent ones to compete with the large bookstores. The purchasers who visit AbeBooks do not see only one retailer of book; they see a network of independent booksellers, whose great majority are small companies. The booksellers download their inventory with the database of AbeBooks, indicating information on each book including/understanding the condition of the book and its price. The booksellers can download their inventory by using their own software or by the application software of AbeBooks named HomeBase. AbeBooks one of the five companies called at the time of the World Summit Awards in Geneva and was indicated among the best sites E-business in 2003.

History

This site was launched in 1996 with four bookstores and started to provide to booksellers means of access of the sale to a worldwide market. AbeBooks was founded in May 1996 by Rick Pura and Keith Waters in Victoria, Canada.

In September 2005, more than thirteen thousand booksellers bring more than 70 million titles to sell by Abebooks. The acquisition of JustBooks of Germany in 2001 had like consequence the entry of the company in the German, French and British markets. JustBooks was founded in September 1999 in Düsseldorf in Germany by Hannes Blum, Dr. Malta Brettel, Christian Langer, Florian Heinemann and Dr. Boris Wertz.

In October 2004, AbeBooks acquires the Spanish company IberLibro.

In November 2005, AbeBooks repurchased the leader of the price gauges dedicated to the books: BookFinder.com.

Forbes Magazine, the NewYork Times, and the newspaper The Guardian gave positive returns on the operation of AbeBooks.

Programs of resale

AbeBooks has already partners in the United States (Barnes & Noble, Yahoo, half.com), in Australia (bibliOZ) and in Japan (Akaikutsu). AbeBooks Europe has, on its side, signed of the partnership contracts with amongst other things BOWL, Buch.de, KNO/Buchkatalog.de, Booktra, Gardners and WHSmith. AbeBooks also plans to increase the number of its partners with virtual or physical bookstores specialized in the sale of new books.

External bonds

AbeBooks

• AbeBooks.fr
• AbeBooks.com
• AbeBooks.co.uk
• AbeBooks.de
• Iberlibro.com

Other AbeBooks companies:

• BookFinder.com
• Fillz.com

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