Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 176 - October 04, 2001 - ISSN 1539-5065
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Out-of-Print Book Sites Merge: Abebooks. com Acquires JustBooks
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
Abebooks.com (Advanced Book Exchange Inc.), a leading worldwide Internet platform for antiquarian, out-of-print and second-hand books, has acquired Europe’s JustBooks, effective October 1st. JustBooks is a leading European Internet platform for second-hand books with Web sites in German, English and French and a selection of over 5 million books. Together, JustBooks and abebooks.com will share a membership of 10,000 book dealers and nearly 35 million books, facilitating between 8,000 and
12,000 transactions a day.
According to Abebooks.com, which launched on the Web in 1996, it brings to the agreement a scalable database technology and experience, while JustBooks brings multilingual capabilities and intimate knowledge of the European culture and book industry. http://www.abebooks.com http://www.justbooks.co.uk http://www.justbooks.fr http://www.justbooks.de
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