eBooks.com

🗓 Founded 1997👥 21 employees💰 Last funded Apr 2013

Launched in 2000, eBooks.com is a popular ebook retailer with a reputation for innovation, integrity and independence. We sell ebooks direct to consumers in every country in the world. You can read our ebooks online, or download them to a vast array of devices, using our Ebook Reader apps. The company is privately held and run by its founders, Stephen and Trudy Cole, and is the only independent ebook retailer with a global footprint. We have our own publisher licenses, delivery platforms, reader apps and repository of titles. Ebook Reader, our mobile app, is one of the most popular apps in the ebook market, with millions of users. eBooks.com hosts millions of unique ebook titles and has over 5 million members. In addition to our direct-to-consumer business, we provide services to book publishers. Digital Comps is a system that enables publishers to send secure ebooks to reviewers and instructors, called “complimentary copies”. Ebook Engine is a system that enables publishers to sell ebooks direct to consumers from their own website.

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1997

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