AbeBooks, the world’s largest online marketplace for books, lists over 110 million new, used, rare, and out of print books from 13,500 booksellers. This great selection delivers value for all: readers find bestsellers, collectors find rare books, students find textbooks, and treasure hunters find books they’ve been seeking forever.

Booksellers love AbeBooks for providing the tools to help them succeed online. AbeBooks offers a range of services including dedicated support, HomeBase inventory management software, and five international sites to reach global markets (AbeBooks.com, AbeBooks.co.uk, AbeBooks.de, AbeBooks.fr, AbeBooks.it, Iberlibro.com). In November 2005, AbeBooks acquired BookFinder.com - a leading price comparison shopping service dedicated to books. In February 2006, FillZ, a book inventory and order management company that helps booksellers offer books through online marketplaces, was acquired. In May 2006, AbeBooks took a 40% stake in Librarything.com – a book cataloguing and social networking site for bibliophiles. In February 2008, AbeBooks launched Gojaba.com - a new no-frills, low-cost online marketplace for used, rare and out of print books in emerging markets. Sweden and Russia were the first markets to be served. In April 2008 AbeBooks acquired Chrislands.com - a service that builds, hosts and maintains online bookstores.

By creating a secure and easy-to-search database and maintaining high standards, AbeBooks has established a dynamic online marketplace for books, and a community that booklovers return to, again and again.

14 April 2008) Finding and buying books just became easier in Italy. Today, AbeBooks.com, the world's largest online marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books, launched a website for Italians who are passionate about books – www.abebooks.it.

AbeBooks.it offers 1.4 million Italian books from 98 booksellers in Italy but also gives access to AbeBooks' global database of 110 million books in many languages being offered for sale from 13,500 sellers around the world.

Visitors to AbeBooks.it will discover a unique selection of collectible Italian books dating back to 1472, including first editions, signed copies, long forgotten out-of-print gems, rare incunabula and other antiquarian treasures. Books that were previously hard-to-find can now be located in seconds.

Books from every genre are offered for sale. Booksellers on AbeBooks.it are also offering new copies of the latest bestsellers, general used books and discounted titles.

Finding and buying a book is easy – it is possible to search by author, title, ISBN or keyword, or use the site's advanced search to find books using dates, prices and other terms. Listings from Italian sellers are displayed first in the search results.

"Italians have always had a tremendous passion for books so it was an easy decision to build this website," said Hannes Blum, CEO and President of AbeBooks.com. "We're simply harnessing the power of the Internet to connect booklovers with booksellers and make buying books easy."

The website becomes the sixth regional website in the AbeBooks family – there are already sites dedicated to North America (www.abebooks.com), the UK (www.abebooks.co.uk), France (www.abebooks.fr), Germany (www.abebooks.fr) and Spain (www.iberlibro.com).

Founded in 1996 in Canada, AbeBooks.com has revolutionized the used and rare book business by making hard-to-find books easy to find and buy.