Andrew Crawford (born 27 July 1971) is an Irish entrepreneur and the former founder and

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of The Book Depository. He was born in

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, of Irish heritage. Crawford, was educated at

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and then The

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studying

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and

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. After a brief spell working for his family firm, Crawford worked in the 1990s in security and specialist risk management working as a

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throughout

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. Having been part of the startup team for Bookpages.co.uk sold to

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, he went on to found The Book Depository in 2004 which is working to make "All Books Available to All". It was later sold to Amazon. Crawford is also founder of

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, a publisher which reissues up to 200 classic titles a week. He is a regular columnist for

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