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| › Alibris | › Amazon.ca | ||||
| Alibris connects people who love books, music and movies to thousands of independent sellers around the world. Our proprietary technology and advanced logistics allow us to offer over 40 million used, new and hard-to-find books to consumers, libraries and retailers. | Amazon.ca, a part of the global Amazon family of Web sites known for great selection and convenience, as well as unsurpassed customer service. Amazon.ca is no exception. Within our virtual walls, you can choose from over a million French and English book, music, video, and DVD titles--all at everyday low prices. We work with Canadian publishers and distributors to ensure a rich offering of Canadian titles and content is available through Amazon.ca. | ||||
| › Amazon.com | › Amazon.co.uk | ||||
| Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and sellers list millions of unique new and used items in categories such as health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics and office, kids and baby and home and garden. | Amazon.co.uk is famous for selling books, but did you know that we now sell millions of other products too? From cameras to coffee machines, exercise videos to Elvis CDs, there's something for everyone. We also enable independent sellers to sell new and used items on our website via Amazon.co.uk Marketplace. In addition, we give you a variety of resources to help you make your choice, including customer reviews and personal recommendations. | ||||
| › Barnes and Noble | › iUniverse | ||||
| Barnes & Noble.com is one of the world's most popular web sites. Launched in March 1997, it's now consistently ranked among the top ten e-commerce sites by Media Metrix. Recent figures show that www.bn.com attracts approximately 10 million unique visitors per month. Barnes & Noble.com is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol "BNBN." The company's majority owner is Barnes & Noble, Inc., which controls approximately 75% of the stock. Barnes & Noble.com and Barnes & Noble, Inc. are separately operated companies. Barnes & Noble.com licenses the "Barnes & Noble" brand, leveraging its power to help build the premier online destination for books, music, and DVD, and other related products and services. | iUniverse provides individuals a simple, fast and affordable way to publish books, market books, and sell fiction and non-fiction books. The company is one of the largest book publishing companies in the United States. iUniverse eliminates the necessity of massive print runs, dramatically shortens time-to-market, and gives authors control over when and how their works are published. iUniverse book publishing programs are endorsed by industry leading author organizations, including the Authors Guild and ASJA. iUniverse is a proud member of the Association of American Publishers, Publishers Marketing Association, and Small Publishers Association of North America. The company's major investors include Warburg Pincus and Barnes & Noble. | ||||
| › Powells.com | › Textbookx.com | ||||
| One Monday in 1993, a man in England emailed a message to Powell's Books with an interesting request. He wanted to buy a book on electronics. His local bookseller had informed him that the book would cost $80; he would have to order it from the United States and the process would take 6-8 weeks. Shipping would cost another $40. Having visited the ftp site for Powell's Technical Books and found, in the store's inventory, a used copy of the book he wanted for $45, he emailed Powells Technical Books and ordered it himself. Powells shipped it to him Express for another $25. He got the book that Thursday. Powell's decided to take the novel idea (no pun intended) a little further. Everything — from database and search engine creation to site design — is created and maintained in-house. When Powells.com started selling online, there were simply no web-building tools available outside of the company. It's this kind of self-reliance that keeps books not only on the shelves of our independently owned and operated business, but online and on bookshelves all over the world. | TextbookX.com, formerly Textbooksatcost.com, is a program of Akademos.com. We are a premier vendor of both new and used college textbooks. TextbookX.com is one of the largest independent online sources of used college textbooks, offering students the ability both to buy and sell their textbooks. We utilize a highly efficient distribution process, based on direct relationships with distributors and publishers, in order to provide students with textbooks at deeply discounted prices. | ||||