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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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Amazon

Seattle, Washington, United States
Category Company
Founded 1994
Sector E-Commerce
Employees1,525,000
Revenue 638.0B USD (2024)
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 was founded in 1994 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 80
Sector: E-Commerce M&A 4 of 10
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 17 of 70
State: British Columbia M&A 1 of 1
Country: Canada M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2008 M&A 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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