books . 1 search engine . commercial yes type of site comparison shopping website written in perl 1 owner abebooks amazon.com launched january 30 1997 current status active bookfinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers buy books online . the site s meta search engine scans the inventories of over 100 000 booksellers located around the world . among the books from sellers whose inventories are indexed users can find the lowest price for a book of their choice from over 150 million volumes available for sale and purchase titles directly from the bookseller without a markup . 2 3 the search engine is focused primarily on dutch english french german italian and spanish language titles . bookfinder.com was founded in 1997 by anirvan chatterjee then a student at the university of california berkeley ; it was one of the earliest vertical search engines for books online . 4 originally known as mx bookfinder 4 it was relaunched as bookfinder.com in 1998 and established as a standalone company based in berkeley california in 1999 . in 2005 bookfinder.com was acquired by abebooks 5 which itself was purchased by amazon.com on august 1 2008 . 6 7 bookfinder.com started operating in europe under the justbooks brand in 2006 . there are currently justbooks bookfinder.com portals for france germany the netherlands and the uk . 3 references edit robert kirrily . site review bookfinder . perlbuzz . retrieved 14 july 2014 . maul kimberly march 2 2007 . bookfinder eliminating obscurity . thebookseller.com . archived from the original on june 19 2008 . retrieved 14 july 2014 . a b about bookfinder.com . bookfinder.com . retrieved 14 july 2014 . a b max d. t. september 13 1998 . want to buy a rare book click here . . the new york times . retrieved july 14 2014 . needle david november 7 2005 . book sites unite . internetnews . retrieved july 14 2014 . amazon.com acquires abebooks press release . seattle washington & victoria british columbia amazon.com . retrieved 2014 07 14 . arrington michael . amazon to acquire abebooks and with it a stake in librarything . techcrunch . further reading edit slatalla michelle 2007 08 30 . knowledge is priceless but textbooks are not . the new york times . retrieved 2007 10 30 . external links edit official website v t e amazon.com people current jeff bezos tony hsieh christopher north werner vogels gregg zehr former rick dalzell brian mcbride david risher ram shriram tom szkutak brian valentine facilities amazon tower i amazon tower ii products and services websites a9.com abebooks alexa internet amapedia askville bookfinder cdnow china curse the book depository dash diapers.com digital photography review endless.com fresh goodreads internet movie database box office mojo withoutabox junglee.com local marketplace payments planetall shelfari twitch.tv wireless woot.com zappos web services ami cloudfront dynamodb ebs ec2 mturk product advertising api rds s3 ses simpledb sqs vpc silk glacier storywriter digital alexa appstore audible inc. comixology amazon drive echo video prime kindle kindle fire fire hd fire hdx fire tv fire phone kindle store lexcycle lovefilm mobipocket music reflexive entertainment fire os amazon digital game store technology 1 click carbonado dynamo gurupa lab126 double helix games obidos liquavista publishing amazon publishing amazon studios breakthrough novel award best books of the year kindle direct publishing investments 43 things amie street songza librarything livingsocial sellaband other amazon books amazon light asin controversies tax fishbowl locker perfect 10 inc. v. amazon.com inc. statistically improbable phrase vine list of amazon.com locations list of mergers and acquisitions by amazon.com list of amazon.com products and services retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bookfinder.com & oldid 705011075 categories book websitescompanies based in berkeley californiacompanies established in 1999internet properties established in 1997product searching websites navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2016 at 23 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view