"Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was a feminist bookstore located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operated from 1970 to 2012. It was the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. The shop was named after the Amazons, a mythological tribe of fierce and independent women. After decades in business, it sold its name to Amazon.com. In 1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full-fledged bookstore. The books were kept in the front room of the women's collective they lived in and books were only available from 3 to 6 PM"
"Orumchian started an online bookstore called CBooks Express, specializing in computer-related books. The domain for CBooks Express was cbooks.com. Computer Literacy Bookstores moved to sue CBooks Express for trademark infringement. Instead, the young company acquired Computer Literacy Bookshops in 1997. The combined company became ComputerLiteracy.com, and it went public in 1998. Soon after going public the company was renamed Fatbrain.com (NASDAQ FATB) after a six-month process to come up with a new name. Company executives worked with branding specialists Interbrand Group; but eventually a name suggested by the company's editorial director, Deborah Bohn, was chosen. Along with the new name,"
"Computer Literacy Bookshops Computer Literacy Bookshops was a local chain of bookstores selling primarily technical-oriented books in Northern California. It was founded in 1983 in Sunnyvale, California, where its concentration in technical books fit well with its Silicon Valley customer base. Computer Literacy was acquired by CBooks Express in 1997, and after going public traded as fatbrain.com, selling books both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. Fatbrain was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 2000, which absorbed the company into its main enterprise, and shut down the physical stores the following year. The first Computer Literacy Bookshop was opened in March"
"a new logo (an emoticon: {*}) and slogan were introduced. In the summer of 1999 Fatbrain started selling electronic documents under the eMatter brand. This was eventually spun off as a new company called MightyWords. Fatbrain.com was acquired and absorbed by Barnes & Noble, the large bookstore chain, in November 2000. The physical stores were finally closed on December 1, 2001, and the domain name clbooks.com was retired; it is now operated by an unrelated organization. Computer Literacy Bookshops Computer Literacy Bookshops was a local chain of bookstores selling primarily technical-oriented books in Northern California. It was founded in 1983"
"December 6, 2010. Alibris Alibris is an online store that sells new books, used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media through an online network of independent booksellers. Alibris was founded in 1997 by Martin Manley and incorporated in 1998. It grew out of Interloc, an online company founded by antiquarian bookseller Richard Weatherford in 1994. Interloc was one of the earliest successful efforts to centralize used book data online. It remained a private network until 1996, when the company launched its website. The company was backed by venture capital until 2006, when it was purchased by Oak Hill"
"it was one of the earliest vertical search engines for books online. Originally known as MX BookFinder, it was relaunched as BookFinder.com in 1998 and established as a standalone company based in Berkeley, California in 1999. In 2005, BookFinder.com was acquired by AbeBooks, which itself was purchased by Amazon.com on August 1, 2008. BookFinder.com started operating in Europe under the JustBooks brand in 2006. There are currently JustBooks/BookFinder.com portals for France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. BookFinder.com BookFinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers buy books online. The site's meta-search engine scans the inventories of over 100,000"
"Alibris Alibris is an online store that sells new books, used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media through an online network of independent booksellers. Alibris was founded in 1997 by Martin Manley and incorporated in 1998. It grew out of Interloc, an online company founded by antiquarian bookseller Richard Weatherford in 1994. Interloc was one of the earliest successful efforts to centralize used book data online. It remained a private network until 1996, when the company launched its website. The company was backed by venture capital until 2006, when it was purchased by Oak Hill Capital Partners, a"
"Douglas Adams's book and radio series ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" that could instantly translate languages. In turn, the name of the fictional creature refers to the biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city of Babel. On December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and SYSTRAN S.A. launched AltaVista Translation Service at babelfish.altavista.com, which was developed by a team of researchers at DEC. In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In July 2003, Overture, in turn, was taken over by Yahoo!. The web address for Babel Fish remained at babelfish.altavista.com until"
"off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time. In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began to work on a business plan for what would become Amazon.com. On July 5, 1994, Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington State with the name Cadabra, Inc. He later changed the name to Amazon.com, Inc. a few months later, after a lawyer misheard its original name as ""cadaver"". In September 1994, Bezos purchased the URL Relentless.com and briefly"
"Trajectory Inc. Trajectory Inc. is an American technology company that focuses on solving the problems facing the global book publishing market. It was founded by Jim Bryant in 2011 and is headquartered in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The company is known for pioneering the development of a series of deep learning algorithms that are used to analyze and recommend books. Since its founding in 2011 by Jim Bryant, Trajectory established relationships with over 300 eBook distributors located on six continents. In 2013, the company quietly acquired the assets of startup Small Demons, which gave them access to the HarperCollins’ e-book library for"
"and technology services to approximately 2,500 bookstores. In 2010 the company rebranded its retail operations as Neebo. Neebo.com is the company's online portal, offering college textbooks, textbook rentals, e-textbooks, and college-branded merchandise. Follett acquired Neebo in 2015. Nebraska Book Company Nebraska Book Company, Inc. began in 1915 with a single college store near the University of Nebraska campus, and it is still headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Following World War II, when the supply of new textbooks could not meet the demand created by returning ex-GI students, NBC began buying books back from students at the end of the"
"Books Ltd. In 1995, Pandora's Books was an early retail entry on the internet, and still operates their website to this day, although under new management since 1999. He is now a bookseller and software developer, under the company name BookIT Enterprises Inc. J. Grant Thiessen J. Grant Thiessen is a Canadian bibliographer and bookseller (Pandora's Books, BookIT Enterprises). He has worked primarily in the area of science fiction. His bibliographic fanzine, ""The Science Fiction Collector"", has been collected into three hardbound volumes from Pandora's Books, and copies of all of the issues are still available from that source. The"
"reference works, including the contemporary 6th edition of the ""Columbia Encyclopedia"". In June 2009, licensed reference works from Columbia University Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt were removed from the site ""due to financial and usage considerations."" By January 2013, on its twentieth anniversary, more than one billion pages had been accessed. In August 2017 Bartleby.com was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education in its purchase of Student Brands, which had bought the site in December 2016. Bartleby.com Bartleby.com is an electronic text archive, headquartered in Los Angeles and named after Herman Melville's story ""Bartleby, the Scrivener."" It was founded under"
"Zebra Books and Pinnacle Books imprints debuted in 1975. Rather than bookstores, the company's books were generally sold in railroad stations, airports, bus terminals, and drug stores. In 2008, Kensington acquired the publishing assets of Holloway House (publishers of Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines). Co-founder Walter Zacharius died in 2011. In addition to having run Lancer Books from 1961–1973, Zacharius authored the World War II novel ""Songbird"", published by Simon & Schuster in 2004 and republished by Kensington Books in 2007 as ""The Memories We Keep"". Steven Zacharius, son of founder Walter Zacharius, has been with the company since 1993"
"now redirects to www.barnesandnoble.com. Book Stacks Unlimited Book Stacks Unlimited was an online bookstore created by Charles M. Stack in 1992, three years before Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com. Stack's store, selling new books, began as a dial-up bulletin board located in Cleveland. It moved to the Internet as Books.com in 1994, eventually attracting a half million visitors each month. Stack devised the concept in 1991 based on his personal fascination with reading and books, as he recalled in 1998: Offering 500,000 titles, Book Stacks had 35 staffers who gave their book recommendations to visitors. Other features included a daily literary"
"Zola Books Zola Books is a social eBook retailer that launched on September 20, 2012. It is described by the Washington Post as ""a venture whose strategy is to combine all three of the e-book world’s major market functions — retailing, curation and social-networking — in an ambitious bid to become a one-stop destination for book lovers on the Web"" The site currently sells six eBook exclusives: ""The Accidental Victim ""by James Reston Jr., Isaac Marion's ""The New Hunger"", ""Making Mavericks"" by surfer Frosty Hesson, ""The Chemickal Marriage"" by Gordon Dahlquist, ""Autumn Leaves"" by comic Annabelle Gurwitch and ""The Time"
"consumers to purchase video games online. GameStop.com was promoted in Babbage's and Software Etc. stores. Barnes & Noble Booksellers purchased Babbage's Etc. in October 1999 for $215 million. Because Babbage's Etc. was principally owned by Leonard Riggio, who was also Barnes & Noble's chairman and principal shareholder, a special committee of independent directors of Barnes & Noble Booksellers evaluated and signed-off on the deal. A few months later, in May 2000, Barnes & Noble acquired Funco, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based video game retailer, for $160 million. Babbage's Etc., which had been previously operating as a direct subsidiary of Barnes &"
"Amazon."" Amazon Books Amazon Books is a chain of retail bookstores owned by online retailer Amazon. The first store opened on November 2, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. , Amazon Books has a total of seventeen stores, with plans to expand to more locations. The first location in Seattle has approximately 5,000 titles stocked on its bookshelves, using shelf space to display the covers of books facing outwards instead of spines; according to Amazon, the decision was made to showcase the authors and their work, rather than efficient use of space. The shelves display positive reviews and star-ratings from the Amazon.com"
"books, RealAudio interviews with authors and forums in which customers could ask questions and discuss books. Books could be searched by title, author, subject, keyword or ISBN number. In 1996, Book Stacks became a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Corporation, a consumer services company based in Stamford, Connecticut and previously known as CUC International. In 1997, Book Stacks became part of Cendant's virtual mall, netMarket, a one-stop Internet shopping site which included an online music store and an online video store, both operating from the Book Stacks offices in downtown Cleveland. Subsequently, it was purchased by Barnes & Noble; www.books.com"
"Safari Books Online Safari Books Online LLC is a digital library founded in July 2000 and headquartered in Sebastopol, California, with offices in Boston and Scottsdale. Safari characterizes itself as a ""platform for technology and business learning"". Safari Books Online originated in 2001 as a joint venture between O'Reilly Media and the Pearson Technology Group. In 2014 O'Reilly Media acquired Pearson's stake, making Safari Books Online a wholly owned subsidiary of O'Reilly Media. Safari's main product is a subscription-based, digital library that includes books, videos, short-form content (""Short Cuts""), and evolving manuscripts (""Rough Cuts"") from O'Reilly Media and from other"
"Goodreads Goodreads is a ""social cataloging"" website that allows individuals to freely search its database of books, annotations, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and discussions. The website's offices are located in San Francisco. The company is owned by the online retailer Amazon. Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Khuri. The website grew rapidly in popularity after being launched. In December 2007,"
"offer carbon free shipping through its Ecosend program, purchasing carbon offsets for the shipment of every book sold through its site. Biblio.com Biblio.com is an online marketplace specializing in rare and collectible books from independent bookstores around the world. Biblio.com was established in 2000 in Asheville, NC, by Brendan J. Sherar and Michael C. Tracey.<ref name=""http://registerofdeeds.buncombecounty.org/External/LandRecords/protected/v4/SrchBookPage.aspx""></ref> Biblio.com announced a joint three-way agreement with Bibliopolis, LLC and Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) in April 2009, to provide a new e-commerce site for ABAA members and their books. Begun in 2000 as a metasearch or price comparison engine, Biblio changed to"
"Apple pays authors 70% of its proceeds at its Apple iBookstore where it sells iBooks. Smashwords is a California-based company founded by Mark Coker which allows authors and independent publishers to upload their manuscripts electronically to the Smashwords service, which then converts them into multiple e-book formats which can be read on various devices. Authors control what price is set. Barnes & Noble pays 65% of the list price of e-books purchased through its online store called Pubit. Kobo is a Canadian company which sells e-books, audiobooks, e-readers and tablet computers which originated as a cloud e-reading service. Scribd is"
"different bookstore: Chapters/Indigo, BakkaPhoenix Books, Barnes & Noble, Wild Rumpus, University Book Store at the University of Washington, Mysterious Galaxy, Anderson's Bookshops, Borderlands Books, The Tattered Cover, Uncle Hugo's, RiverRun Bookstore, Gibson's Bookstore, Busboys and Poets, Politics and Prose, Books of Wonder, Powell's Books, Amazon, Forbidden Planet. In May 2013, 20th Century Fox sent a DMCA takedown request to Google to remove links to Cory Doctorow's novel Homeland, on the basis that 20th Century Fox owns an unrelated TV series with same title. When contacted by TorrentFreak, Doctorow expressed that he was ""incandescent with rage"" and jokingly added ""BRING ME"
"Laissez Faire Books Laissez Faire Books (LFB) is an online bookseller that was originally based in New York City when it first opened in 1972. From 1982 until 2007, Laissez Faire Books operated as a division of two separate non-profit corporations, the Center for Independent Thought from 1982 to 2004, and the Center for Libertarian Thought from 2005 to 2007. In November 2007, the bookstore's ownership was transferred to the International Society for Individual Liberty. In March 2011, Agora Financial acquired Laissez Faire Books. LFB was founded in New York City in 1972 by John Muller and Sharon Presley. Muller,"
"AbeBooks AbeBooks is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven national domains that offers books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in 50+ countries. On August 1, 2008, Amazon acquired AbeBooks. In 1995, AbeBooks was founded by Rick and Vivian Pura, and Keith and Cathy Waters. It was incorporated in 1995 and launched its websites in 1996, initially including listings for only four bookstores. The company name ""Abebooks"" is derived from their original name, ""Advanced Book Exchange"". From the late 1990s to 2005, AbeBooks had reseller agreements with eBay, Half.com, Barnes & Noble.com, BibliOZ.com and Amazon.com, allowing AbeBooks to market"
"circulation of blood, Galileo ’s ""Sidereus Nuncius"", the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta. Rare Book Room Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public. Starting around 1996 the California-based company Octavo began scanning rare and important books from libraries around the world. These scans were done at extremely high resolution using high-quality equipment, with some pages at over 200MB each. They were sold by Octavo as commercial products on CD-ROM. In 2006 the ""Rare Book Room"" website was created"
"Amazon Books Amazon Books is a chain of retail bookstores owned by online retailer Amazon. The first store opened on November 2, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. , Amazon Books has a total of seventeen stores, with plans to expand to more locations. The first location in Seattle has approximately 5,000 titles stocked on its bookshelves, using shelf space to display the covers of books facing outwards instead of spines; according to Amazon, the decision was made to showcase the authors and their work, rather than efficient use of space. The shelves display positive reviews and star-ratings from the Amazon.com website"
"National Book Store National Book Store, Inc. (abbreviated as NBS) is a retail company based in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. It operates a bookstore and office-supplies store chain of the same name. The history of National Book Store can be traced back to the 1930s. Before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, José Ramos and Socorro Cáncio-Ramos, rented a small-corner space of a Haberdashery situated at the foot of Escolta Bridge in Santa Cruz, Manila. With a starting capital of (equivalent to in 2015), the Ramoses set up their first retail bookstore selling GI novels, text"
"its England office from London to Oxford in that year. Credo Reference Credo Reference or Credo (formerly Xrefer) is an American company that offers online reference content by subscription and partners with libraries to develop information-literacy programs or produce library marketing plans and materials. Founded in 1999, Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of over 3,500 published reference works from more than 100 publishers in a variety of major subjects. These include general and subject dictionaries as well as encyclopedias. The company's customers are libraries, library systems, k-12 schools, and universities, which subscribe to the service for their patrons' use."
"Reflecting the shifting dynamics of Boston's retail districts, the company opened its Harvard Square store in 1988 and a location in Boston's Back Bay in 1993. The store launched its web site in the winter of 1995, the first comprehensive travel book site on the web. It now comprises over 40,000 web pages. The Globe Corner Bookstore's Adventure Travel Lecture Series had hosted Jan Morris, Bradford Washburn, William Dalrymple, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Newby, Paul Theroux, Roger Tory Peterson, Rory Stewart, and David Allen Sibley, in addition to other well-known authors and travel writers. A combination of high rents and the"
"Book Stacks Unlimited Book Stacks Unlimited was an online bookstore created by Charles M. Stack in 1992, three years before Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com. Stack's store, selling new books, began as a dial-up bulletin board located in Cleveland. It moved to the Internet as Books.com in 1994, eventually attracting a half million visitors each month. Stack devised the concept in 1991 based on his personal fascination with reading and books, as he recalled in 1998: Offering 500,000 titles, Book Stacks had 35 staffers who gave their book recommendations to visitors. Other features included a daily literary journal, summaries of new"
"Joshua Ferraro Joshua Ferraro is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. Ferraro was the founding CEO of LibLime and grew the company to profitability with over 600 customers under 140 contracts. Under his leadership, LibLime grew rapidly into the largest support organization for the Koha open-source integrated library system (ILS), acquiring key Koha assets including a Koha trademark in United States, copyrights for the original Koha source code, and the Koha.org domain. He was chief architect for ‡biblios.net, the company's free cataloging service and the world's largest database of openly licensed library records. He also successfully navigated the company through"