Alibris Creates Global Online Marketplace for Borders.com.The New Borders Marketplace, Powered by Alibris, Gives Customers Access to More Than 75 Million Used and Out-of-Print Books, Music, and Movies EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Alibris (www.alibris.com), the premier marketplace for sellers of new, used, and out-of-print books, music items, and movies today announced it has created Borders Marketplace, a special section of the newly launched Borders.com site that gives customers access to more than 75 million used and out-of-print titles. The items are offered for sale by Alibris sellers, a rapidly growing community of more than 12,000 members. Borders Marketplace is accessible on Borders.com under the Used Books tab. Borders Marketplace will also be accessible via computer kiosks in Borders superstores This is a list of superstores by country. Multi-national
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Alibris to launch the Borders Marketplace for used books, music, and movies," said Kevin Ertell, vice president of e-business for Borders Group. "By aggregating thousands of independent resellers, they offer millions of used and out-of-print books, music and movies giving Borders customers a deep selection of titles from which to choose when they visit Borders.com." The Borders Marketplace Web site was built using the Alibris E-commerce Platform. This proprietary technology provides standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. e-commerce capabilities, including search, browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. , shopping cart, profile generation, and credit card processing on a customized Web site that employs the look, tone, and feel of the Borders brand. Fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. and customer service, which are provided by Alibris, were branded and tailored to meet Borders's requirements. Site maintenance and support are also provided by Alibris. "We're proud to be partnered with this industry leader and opening this market to our seller community," said Alibris President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Brian Elliott Brian Elliott (born April 9 1985 in Newmarket, Ontario) is a goaltender for the Binghamton Senators of the AHL. He was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the 2003 draft with the 291st pick. He went on to play 4 seasons for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. . "Our E-commerce Platform has dramatically streamlined the process of providing businesses with their own online media marketplace. It provides Borders with the ability to bring their customers our breadth of selection, and enables them to earn revenue immediately, all with a minimum of effort." The Alibris E-commerce Platform is part of a suite of solutions that make it easy for companies to grow their online business by bringing together media buyers and sellers from around the world. Together, the Alibris E-commerce Platform and the Alibris E-Commerce Integration Framework, a standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. XML-based technology that allows business partners to directly integrate Alibris's breadth of selection and to offer Alibris items for sale on their own e-commerce-enabled sites, provide a broad range of integration options that meet the requirements of partners around the world. About Alibris Alibris is the premiere online destination for new and used books, music items, and movies, as well as rare and out-of-print titles. We connect people who love books, music, and movies to the best independent sellers from 45 countries around the world. Our proprietary technology and advanced logistics allow us to offer more than 75 million used, new, and out-of-print titles to consumers, libraries, and retailers, which include Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Blackwell U.K., Books-A-Million, Borders, Chapters/Indigo, and Half.com. Founded in 1998 and acquired by Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2006, Alibris was named a "Fast 50" and a "Technology Fast 500" growth business by Deloitte in 2005. Alibris is a registered trademark. About Borders Group, Inc. Headquartered in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich., Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ) is a $3.8 billion global retailer of books, music, movies, periodicals, and gift and stationery The term for boilerplate in the Eudora mail client, starting with Version 3.0. Stationery files are stored on disk and brought into new messages or added to replies. See boilerplate. items. Through its subsidiaries, Borders Group employs approximately 30,000 and operates over 1,100 stores and Borders.com. For more information about Borders Group, please visit www.bordersgroupinc.com. |
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