AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books. More than 140 million new, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print books are offered for sale through the AbeBooks websites from thousands of booksellers around the world. Readers can find bestsellers, collectors can find rare books, students can find new and used textbooks, and treasure hunters can find long-lost books.
AbeBooks is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. AbeBooks, an online bookselling pioneer, was acquired in December 2008 and remains a stand-alone operation with headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a European office in Dusseldorf, Germany.
The AbeBooks family of websites include: AbeBooks.com, AbeBooks.co.uk, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it, AbeBooks.de, IberLibro.com and ZVAB.com.