BookFinder.com is a
vertical search website
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that helps readers buy books online. The site's
meta-search engine scans the
inventories
Inventory (American English) or stock (British English) refers to the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.
Inventory management is a discipline primarily about specifying the sha ...
of over 100,000 booksellers located around the world. Among the books from sellers whose inventories are indexed, users can find the lowest price for a book of their choice from over 150 million volumes available for sale, and purchase titles directly from the bookseller, without a markup.
The search engine is focused primarily on Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language titles.
BookFinder.com was founded in 1997 by Anirvan Chatterjee, then a student at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...
; it was one of the earliest vertical search engines for books online.
Originally known as MX BookFinder,
it was relaunched as BookFinder.com in 1998 and established as a standalone company based in
Berkeley, California
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in 1999.
In 2005, BookFinder.com was acquired by
AbeBooks, which itself was purchased by
Amazon.com on August 1, 2008.
BookFinder.com started operating in Europe under the JustBooks brand in 2006. There are currently JustBooks/BookFinder.com portals for France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.
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Companies based in Berkeley, California
1997 establishments in California
Internet properties established in 1997
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