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Amazon Buys Another Books-Focused Social Site Shelfari

Rafat Ali

Aug 25, 2008 11:27 PM

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying up another books-focused social network Shelfari, three weeks after it acquired AbeBooks, which holds a 40 percent stake in Shelfari’s main rival, LibraryThing. The Seattle-based startup was founded last year by Josh Hug, the former director of device engineering at RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), and in…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Amazon, abebooks, librarything, shelfari

Amazon.com to Acquire Canadian Used Books Site AbeBooks

Rafat Ali

Aug 1, 2008 8:27 AM

Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has bought Canada-based online used books site AbeBooks. No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement. Interestingly, AbeBooks will continue to function as a stand-alone operation. Amazon already had a reseller agreement with the site. Abebooks says it has over 110 million used, rare and out-of-print books…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, Amazon, Countries, Canada, abebooks

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