100 million vertebrate animals in Kansas cause to celebrate
The uploading to Abebooks.com of “A Checklist of the Vertebrate Animals of Kansas” by George D. Potts and Thomas T. Collins marked the first time the e-commerce site’s inventory has reached 100 million books.
The 1991 first edition, offered by Gene’s Books in Stafford, Kan., was priced at $34.47 and is an example of hard-to-find tomes Abebooks Inc. offers. The e-retailer, No. 67 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide to Retail Web Sites, specializes in used, rare and out-of-print books, and also sells new books. Abebooks purchased the book for the sake of company memorabilia.
The 100 million landmark was reached, plain and simple, because booksellers have been listing more books than ever in the past, the company says. With 13,500 booksellers using Abebooks, the average seller has 7,400 listings—up from 6,500 in 2005. The book count topped a million after less than six months in business and hit 35 million in 2000. The database has grown by up to 17 million books a year for the past three years, the company reports.
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