News of Interest to Bibliophiles, Searchers, and Learners
Information Today › Vol. 25 Nbr. 9, October 2008
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News of Interest to Bibliophiles, Searchers, and Learners
Those of us who love books couldn't help but notice the recent flurry of book-related developments. Amazon, the major online retailer of books and other products, has been busy pushing sales of ebooks and its Kindle ebook reader. It has also made a series of interesting acquisitions. In mid- August, Amazon announced it would acquire Canadian-based AbeBooks, which offers an online inventory of more than 110 million used, rare, and out-of-print books from about 13,000 independent booksellers worldwide. Neither company would supply details on p...
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