/ Technology

AbeBooks continues to build its library of companies

AbeBooks has acquired Chrislands, a company that builds, hosts and maintains online bookstores for used booksellers around the world. It’s the fourth acquisition by AbeBooks in as many years.

Posted 04/10/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

/ E-Retailers

ECampus.com has college book stores going digital

Online bookstore operator eCampus.com recently added 45 new schools and digital learning centers to its roster, including National-Louis University in Chicago and Anoka Technical College in Anoka, MN. About 125 school stores now link to eCampus.com.

Posted 02/27/2008Mark BrohanPost a comment

/ Marketing

AbeBooks heads to Sweden and Russia with Gojaba.com

AbeBooks is expanding its presence in international e-commerce with the launch of Gojaba.com, initially targeting Sweden and Russia.

Posted 02/11/2008Don DavisPost a comment

/ Marketing

AbeBooks.com turns the page on more web site enhancements

The online independent bookseller is rolling out digital coupons and fine tuning a ratings system that assigns each of its booksellers a series of stars based on the number of successfully fulfilled orders.

Posted 01/16/2008Mark BrohanPost a comment

/ Marketing

Barnes & Noble opens online book forum with best-selling writers

In the continuing trend to make online book stores more interactive with customers, BarnesandNoble.com this week launched a book club forum that features online discussions with such best-selling authors as Luanne Rice, Dennis Lehane and Jim Cramer.

Posted 01/09/2008Don DavisPost a comment

AbeBooks sets its sites on more international business development

AbeBooks will continue to pursue foreign business development. A top priority is the overseas expansion of Bookfinder.com, which lets buyers search through over 100 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books for sale from thousands of booksellers.

Posted 05/23/2007Mark BrohanPost a comment

/ Marketing

Search capacity on BookFinder.com reaches 125 million books

Shoppers on BookFinder.com now can search an inventory of 125 million books from more than 100,000 sellers, founder Anirvan Chatterjee says.

Posted 04/05/2007Paul DemeryPost a comment

100 million vertebrate animals in Kansas cause to celebrate

The uploading to Abebooks.com of “A Checklist of the Vertebrate Animals of Kansas” by George D. Potts and Thomas T. Collins marked the first time the e-commerce site’s inventory has reached 100 million books.

Posted 10/11/2006Mark BrohanPost a comment

Making too much money too quickly

While e-retailer Biblio is quite happy with large leaps in sales, executives are taking a step back to ensure their strategies are focused on the right areas.

Posted 08/16/2006Mark BrohanPost a comment

Tower Records launches online bookstore

Continuing recent efforts to expand its reach as a multi-channel retailer, Tower Records has introduced an online bookstore with more than 500,000 titles at Tower.com, the company said today.

Posted 03/29/2006Mark BrohanPost a comment