- AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, with over 110M primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of independent booksellers from around the world.
- Amazon.com previously announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks on Aug. 1, 2008.

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