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Elliott Bay Book Company Washington: Seattle: Fuel Coffee & Books Washington: Seattle (3 locations) Third Place Books Washington: Seattle (3 locations) Left Bank Books Washington: Seattle: Anarchist: Queen Anne Book Company Washington: Seattle: University Book Store Washington: Seattle: Taylor Books West Virginia: Charleston: A Room of One's ...
Books-A-Million United States: Locations across 32 US states (260 stores). Also operates Bookland and 2nd & Charles. Busboys and Poets United States: Located in the Washington metropolitan area (8 locations) Deseret Book United States: Utah regional chain; also operates Seagull Book. Follett's United States: Half Price Books United States
Entrance to the Half Price Books Northwest Highway, the corporate headquarters, on E. Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas Half Price Books in Berkeley, California. Founders Ken Gjemre (1921-2002) and Pat Anderson opened the first store in 1972 in a former laundromat in Dallas, Texas, filling the shelves with 2,000 books out of their personal libraries. [5]
The company name "Abebooks" is derived from their original name, "Advanced Book Exchange". [3] 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 and sell booksellers' books through those channels; these agreements were dissolved in 2005.
The same year, the company opened its first superstore format store. [5] In 1992, the company changed its name to Books-A-Million, Inc. and became a public company via an initial public offering of 2.6 million shares at a price of $13 per share. [5] [6] In 1998, the company launched its website, booksamillion.com. [5]
Follett Corporation was founded in 1873 when Charles M. Barnes opened a used book store in his Wheaton, Illinois, home. [4] Three years later, Barnes moved his business, now named C. M. Barnes & Company, to Chicago where he opened a store at 23 LaSalle Street. Here, he sold new and used textbooks, stationery and school supplies.
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
ThriftBooks was founded in the summer of 2003 by Daryl Butcher and Jason Meyer. The two created software that organizes and lists thousands of book titles per day. [6] Since 2004, it has partnered with libraries, which provide unsorted books and get a share of the profits.