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List Of Online Booksellers
A list of booksellers who predominantly sell new or used books online, although some may sell other items as well; some may also sell through brick and mortar stores. Incorporated is a list of online marketplaces to which numerous small independent booksellers belong. *AALBC.com, launched in 1998, focuses on books written by, or about, people of African descent *AbeBooks, online marketplace for used books, owned by Amazon.com since 2008 *Alibris an online marketplace for used but also new books *Amazon.com the "world's largest bookstore" began by selling books from its website in 1995, and is now the world's largest online retailer of consumer goods. It operates country-specific versions of its website for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. It bought Bibliofind.com (Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1999 and AbeBooks in 2008."Amazon Buys into Rare Books, Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookseller
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athens, Athenian booksellers. History In Ancient Rome, Rome, toward the end of the Roman Republic, republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade. The spread of Christianity naturally created a great demand for copies of the Gospels, other sacred books, and later on for missals and other devotional volumes for both church and private use. The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing. In the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the Low Countries for a time became the chief centre of the bookselling world. Modern book selling has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. Major websites s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Depository
Book Depository (previously ''The Book Depository'') is a UK-based online book seller with a large catalogue, offering free shipping to over 160 countries. Founded by a former Amazon employee, it was acquired by Amazon on July 4, 2011. History The company was founded in 2004 by Andrew Crawford and Stuart Felton. Its motto is to make "All Books Available to All" by improving selection, access and affordability. Awards In 2012, Book Depository was a finalist for the Fast Growth Business Awards' Retail/Leisure Business of the Year award, and won two UK Startup Awards, Online Business of the Year and Retailer of the Year. In 2013, it was ranked 5th in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100. In 2009 and 2010, it won Direct Bookselling Company of the Year at the Bookseller Industry Awards, and the Queen's Award For Enterprise. See also * List of online booksellers A list of booksellers who predominantly sell new or used books online, although some may sell other items as well; som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powell's Books
Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city block between NW 10th and 11th Avenues and between W. Burnside and NW Couch Streets. It contains over , about 1.6 acres of retail floor space. In 2016, CNN rated it one of the "coolest" bookstores in the world. The City of Books has nine color-coded rooms and over 3,500 different sections. The inventory for its retail and online sales is over four million new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. As of 2009, Powell's was buying around 3,000 used books a day. History 20th century Powell's was founded by Walter Powell in 1971. His son, Michael Powell, had started a bookstore in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970 which specialized in used, rare, and discounte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Momox
Momox AG is a Berlin-based recommerce site for used books and media founded by Christian Wegner in 2004. Wegner has said that "momox" stands for "Moderner Medien Online Express-Ankauf". Wegner started selling used items in 2004 with 1500 euros start-up capital and of storage space, selling on eBay and Amazon. In May 2006, he founded Momox GmbH and the momox.de web site for buying books, CDs, and DVDs. The selling site Medimops opened in 2007. In 2010, other investors joined the company. The company expanded to France, Austria, and Great Britain in 2011. In 2019, Momox had €250 million in sales. , the majority owner is Verdane Capital of Norway, and Wegner has sold all his shares. Due to Brexit Brexit (; a portmanteau of "British exit") was the Withdrawal from the European Union, withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) at 23:00 Greenwich Mean Time, GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 Central Eur ..., the company had to discon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maremagnum
Maremagnum is an Milan-based vertical search site for books. It was founded in 1995 in Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ... by Sergio Malavasi, the owner of the Libreria Malavasi; its website went live in 1996.Libreria Malavasi, "Chi Siamo" ww.libreriamalavasi.com/ref> Name The site was named after the ''Maremagnum omnium materiarum'' of Francesco Marucelli. History Maremagnum was founded in 1995 by Sergio Malavasi, the owner of the Malavasi bookshop in Milan. The website was launched in 1996, displaying inventory from six Italian bookstores. The site's goal is to promote the ancient book online. In 1995, Maremagnum inaugurated ''Vecchi Libri in Piazza'', an exhibition and street market for old and used books held on the second Sunday of each month from Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Harrington
Adrian Harrington (born 1948, Chelsea, England) is a notable antiquarian bookseller, a Past President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), 2001–2003, and a recent Past President of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). He has exhibited at major international book fairs in America, Canada, Hong Kong, Britain and Ireland, and between 2000 and 2010 Harrington was the Chairman of Britain's leading rare book event, the summer ABA Book Fair at Olympia, London, which, during his tenure, has been host to opening speakers including authors Jacqueline Wilson, Lynda La Plante, Joanna Lumley, Bob Geldof, Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Marr, Barry Humphries, Frederick Forsyth and former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion. Harrington has been a regular consultant on rare books for Millers Price Guide, and has been interviewed on book-related matters by the BBC, and Australian Television History Adrian Harrington was established in the King's Road, Chelsea in 1971, mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half
One half ( : halves) is the irreducible fraction resulting from dividing one by two or the fraction resulting from dividing any number by its double. Multiplication by one half is equivalent to division by two, or "halving"; conversely, division by one half is equivalent to multiplication by two, or "doubling". One half often appears in mathematical equations, recipes, measurements, etc. Half can also be said to be one part of something divided into two equal parts. For instance, the area ''S'' of a triangle is computed. :''S'' = × perpendicular height. One half also figures in the formula for calculating figurate numbers, such as triangular numbers and pentagonal numbers: : \frac and in the formula for computing magic constants for magic squares : M_2(n) = \frac \left(n^ + 1\right) The Riemann hypothesis states that every nontrivial complex root of the Riemann zeta function has a real part equal to . One half has two different decimal expansions, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dymocks
Dymocks Booksellers is an Australian-founded privately owned bookstore chain, that also specialise in CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, e-books and related merchandising. It currently has 65 stores locally and has had several stores in New Zealand and Hong Kong. History The first Dymocks bookstore was opened in Sydney by William Dymock in 1879, in Market Street. As his business grew over the years, he moved to larger premises at 428 George Street, traded as Dymock's Book Arcade, and eventually had a million books in stock. As he had died childless and unmarried, the business passed to his sister, Marjory, who was married to John Forsyth. Since then, the Forsyth family has managed Dymocks. In 1922, the Dymock family purchased the site of the old Royal Hotel in George Street, and built the historic, Art Deco landmark Dymocks building, completed in 1930. In 1986 the bookstore chain was established as a franchise chain, and has since opened stores in every mainland Australian state, and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chegg
Chegg, Inc., is an American education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services. The company was launched in 2005, and began trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2013. As of March 2020, the company reported having 2.9 million subscribers to Chegg Services. The services provided by Chegg have been controversial because there have been reports of student cheating using Chegg services. History In October 2000, Iowa State University students Josh Carlson, Mike Seager, and Mark Fiddleke launched Chegg's forerunner, Cheggpost, a Craigslist-style message board for Iowa State students. ''Chegg'' is a combination of the words ''chicken'' and ''egg'', and references the founders’ catch-22 feeling of being unable to obtain a job without experience, while being unable to acquire experience without a job. Carlson then teamed with Iowa St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapters (bookstore)
Chapters Inc. is a Canadian big box bookstore banner owned by Indigo Books and Music. Formerly a separate company competing with Indigo, the combined company has continued to operate both banners since their merger in 2001. As of July 2017, it operated 89 superstores under the banners Chapters and Indigo, and 122 small format stores under the banners Coles, Indigospirit, SmithBooks and The Book Company. History Chapters Inc. was created in 1994 when founder and CEO, Lawrence Stevenson led the buyout and merger of Canada's two largest book chains at the time: Coles and SmithBooks (formerly the Canadian division of U.K. book chain W. H. Smith). SmithBooks was acquired from Federal Industries and Coles was acquired from Southam Inc. Canadian General Capital and Pathfinder Capital bought these two chains to build large-format book superstores comparable to those of the American bookstore chains Barnes & Noble and Borders. The new company was created in April 1995 and the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borders Books And Music
A border is a geographical boundary. Border, borders, The Border or The Borders may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Film and television * ''Border'' (1997 film), an Indian Hindi-language war film * ''Border'' (2018 Swedish film), a fantasy film * ''Border'' (2018 Bhojpuri film), a war film * ''The Border'' (1982 film), an American drama * ''The Border'' (1996 film), an Italian war drama * ''The Border'' (2007 film), a Finnish-Russian war drama * ''The Border'' (2009 film), a Slovak documentary * ''The Border'' (TV series) a 2008–10 Canadian drama series Literature * "The Border", a 2004 short story by Richard Harland * "The Border", a 2019 novel by Don Winslow Music * "Border" (song), by Years & Years, 2015 * "Borders" (Feeder song), 2012 * "Borders" (M.I.A. song), 2015 * "Borders" (The Sunshine Underground song), 2007 * ''The Border'', soundtrack to the 1982 film, by Ry Cooder * "The Border" (America song), 1983 * "The Border" (Mr. Mister song), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booktopia
Booktopia Pty Ltd is an Australian online bookstore. Founded in 2004, it now turns over $165 million a year, and was listed in the AFR/BRW's Fast 100 eight times, the only company to ever achieve this feat, from 2009 to 2017. In 2016, 2017 & 2019 Booktopia was voted 'Bookstore of the Year'. In 2018 it won NSW Telstra Business of the Year and the Australian Telstra Business Award People's Choice Award. It has been a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards seven times from 2011 to 2018, the only company to achieve this feat. Booktopia has stated that Australian authors and titles are a key focus for the company. Booktopia completed a $20 million capital raise at the beginning of 2020. History Booktopia was founded on 4 February 2004 by Tony Nash, Steve Traurig, and Simon Nash in Sydney, Australia. Tony started the business as a side project. They started on a $10 per day budget and took three days to sell the first book, but then the business grew rapidly. After the first month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
