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About Abebooks.co.uk
Abebooks.co.uk is the book source for UK booklovers, created by Abebooks the world's largest online marketplace for secondhand, rare, and out-of-print books.

Abebooks.co.uk is made up of thousands of booksellers, and was created to help UK booksellers share their books with UK bookbuyers. Features such as paying in pounds and browsing local bookseller lists help bookbuyers feel at home searching Abebooks' 40 million secondhand, rare, and out-of-print books.

Abebooks' strategic partnerships with Gardners and WHSmith help bring more books to UK bookbuyers. Abebooks' global partnerships with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and eBay/Half.com help UK booksellers reach even larger global markets.


Quick Facts
- Over 40 million antiquarian, out-of-print and secondhand titles worldwide.
- 10,000 booksellers from 42 countries list their books with abebooks.
- Abebooks (Advanced Book Exchange Inc.) incorporated in 1995. Web site launched 1996.
- Abebooks Europe was formed in October 2001 through the acquisition of JustBooks UK Ltd.
- Based in Victoria, B.C., Canada and Duesseldorf, Germany
 
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Abebooks Contact

Marci Crossan
Media Relations
Tel: +1-250-412-3258
Fax: +1-250-475-6014
media@abebooks.co.uk

abebooks Europe GmbH
Ronsdorfer Str. 77a
40233 Düsseldorf
Germany

http://www.abebooks.co.uk
http://www.abebooks.com
 
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Press Releases

Abebooks.com Chosen for Forbes Magazine "Best of the Web" List, Second Year in a Row

Abebooks Partners with R.R. Bowker to Make Available Online Direct Ordering From Abebooks Via Booksinprint.com and Globalbooksinprint.com



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Hot News

Macleans Magazine (27 January 2003) "Turning Old Books into Gold: Abebooks is a Global Success on the Net"

The London Daily Mail (January 2003) "Bookworm"

Computer Shopper (January 2003) "Top 10 Shops"

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