M&A Deal Summary

Amazon Acquires Abebooks

On December 1, 2008, Amazon acquired e-commerce company Abebooks

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Amazon’s 4th transaction in the E-Commerce sector.
  • This is Amazon’s 1st transaction in Canada.
  • This is Amazon’s 1st transaction in British Columbia.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-12-01
Target Abebooks
Sector E-Commerce
Buyer(s) Amazon
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Abebooks

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Abebooks, Inc. is an online marketplace for books, with over 110 million primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of independent booksellers from around the world.

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Buyer

Amazon

Seattle, Washington, United States
Category Company
Founded 1994
Sector E-Commerce
Employees1,525,000
Revenue 574.8B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Amazon office building in downtown Seattle, Washington.
Amazon office building in downtown Seattle, Washington.

Amazon is an e-commerce retailer and provider of web services. Amazon enables millions of products to be sold through its website and by third parties across a variety of product categories. Customers access Amazon directly and through mobile websites and apps. Amazon also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo. Amazon also offers Amazon Prime, an annual membership program that includes free shipping and access to streaming of movies and TV episodes. Amazon was founded in 1994 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 76
Sector (E-Commerce) 4 of 10
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 17 of 67
State (British Columbia) 1 of 1
Country (Canada) 1 of 1
Year (2008) 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-10-22 Reflexive Entertainment

Lake Forest, California, United States

Reflexive Entertainment, Inc., makes casual and online games for PCs and Macs, as well as Xbox 360. Founded in 1997.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-04-27 Lexcycle

Seattle, Washington, United States

LexCycle LLC, the maker of the popular Stanza application for the desktop, iPhone and iPod touch. Lexcycle a software company that makes electronic book reading software.

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