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World of Books Group Limited is an online second-hand book retailer, trading under the names Wob, Ziffit, and Shopiago, [1] reported to be the United Kingdom's largest. [2] The company buys unsold inventory of used books mostly from UK charity shops.
Better World Books acquired a US Small Business Administration-backed credit line in 2004. [5] In April 2008, Better World Books secured an additional $4.5 million in venture capital via Good Capital, LLC and 18 private investors. [9] In 2008, the company opened an operation in Dunfermline, Scotland, and started a UK website in 2010.
The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago-based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines. The company later moved to New York ...
It owns and operates American Wholesale Book Company (AWBC), an e-commerce division operating as booksamillion.com; and an internet development and services company, NetCentral, in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] In December 2015, the company was acquired by its chairman, Clyde B. Anderson, and his family, for $21 million. [3] [4]
Pearson plc is a multinational corporation, headquartered in the UK, focused on educational publishing and services.. Originating in 1844 and named S Pearson and Son by Samuel Pearson in 1856, what began as a small local civil engineering business in Yorkshire grew between 1880 and 1927 into a massive diversified international conglomerate under the subsequent leadership of Samuel's grandson ...
It offers more than 250 million books from a network of over 6000 booksellers in 65 countries. Most sales made through Alibris are fulfilled by the bookseller directly to the end customer. Sales to libraries or other institutions or books needing transoceanic shipping are consolidated in a distribution center in Sparks, Nevada.
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.
Penguin Random House Limited [3] is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. [4] [5] Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 [6] and Random House was founded in 1927. [7]