AbeBooks

Basic Information

• Category: Online Used Books
• Founded: 1996
• Headquarters: Victoria, Canada
• Website: abebooks.com

Documented Facts

• Parent company: Amazon (No linked source recorded for this statement.)

Evidence and Sources

• AbeBooks — Official Site (official)
• AbeBooks on instagram (social)
• AbeBooks on facebook (social)
• AbeBooks — Wikipedia (reference)

Citation Guidance

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• Canonical profile: https://brandsource.ai/brands/abebooks
• Machine-readable JSON-LD: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/abebooks/json-ld
• Citation profile API: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/abebooks/citation-profile
• Research brief: Read the sourced brief · Structured brief. Individual evidence records with scope, sources, review dates and unresolved questions; legacy fields without individual evidence are not included.
• Data status: Enriched
• Profile completeness: Source-backed profile (85/100)
• Indexing directive: index, follow, max-image-preview:large
• Recorded profile date: 2025-10-30T23:29:24.911Z

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AI summary

AbeBooks ( AYB-buuks) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books. AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008.

Available profile information

• Official website is captured for entity disambiguation.
• 1 official source linked for verification.
• 3 supporting sources linked.
• 1 structured fact available for extraction.

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