AbeBooks - Text Books, Rare Books, Just Released Books, Science Fiction Books, Fantasy Books, Books for Cooks, Religious & Spiritual Books, Bestsellers & Award Winners, Children's Books

Save money with great book deals. AbeBooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books, whether new, secondhand, rare, or out of print. With a community of more than 13,500 independent booksellers having over 100 million books from around the world, you are assured of getting that rare find you have been looking for. It is simple and safe to find and buy your book of choice. Here, readers find bestsellers, collectors find rare books, students find textbooks, and treasure hunters get their find.

AbeBooks is a private company with its headquarter in Victoria, BC Canada. It was incorporated in 1995 and its website was launched in 1996. Two couples - Rick and Vivian Pura and Keith and Cathy Waters - started the concept. Although technology has changed, their initial concept still stands: to connect buyers and sellers by acting as a giant shopping mall for bookstores. In 2003, the United Nations - at the World Summit Awards held in Geneva - named the company as one of the top e-business sites.

If you are a bookseller, you need to pay a subscription fee in order to list your books, the monthly rate ranging from $25 to $300 depending on the number of books you have listed. You will have access to dedicated support, HomeBase inventory management software, and five international websites to reach your customers. The services create a level playing field, allowing small independent players to compete with superstorer. You upload your inventory data to the AbeBooks database, specifying information about each book that includes condition and price.

If you are a booklover, you can find any book you are looking for from the combined inventories of booksellers. If the one you want is not listed, just leave a search request and the AbeBooks database will automatically check the new titles uploaded daily. You can make your search by author,title, keyword. When you find your book, you can communicate with the seller over email where AbeBooks simply facilitates the transaction. Alternatively, you can make your purchase at the site using a credit card where booksellers say a 5% fee for all transactions. You pay no additional handling fees. In order to purchase books or to access your Members Menu, you need to have a book buyer account, which is easy to set up. Where over 80 million new, used, rare, out-of-print books are just a click away

AbeBooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, used, rare, or out of print, you can find it here, through our community of over 13,500 independent booksellers selling 110 million books from around the globe.

AbeBooks - Text Books, Rare Books, Just Released Books, Science Fiction Books, Fantasy Books, Books for Cooks, Religious & Spiritual Books, Bestsellers & Award Winners, Children's Books