Melville House Books

While Borders tries to enter the British online market via Amazon, Abebooks, a rapidly growing player in Internet booksales, is entering the Spanish online market by purchasing a Spanish e-retailer. As Leigh Phillips reports in a story for Digital Media Europe, Abebooks announced “the acquisition of Iberlibro.com, a Spain-based platform for used and antiquarian books sales in the global Spanish-speaking community. This announcement comes just a week after Casa del Libro, a bookstore chain in Spain, uploaded a quarter of a million new books onto the Abebooks marketplace.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.