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BookFinder.com

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Vertical search website owned by Amazon

BookFinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers find and buy new, used, rare, out-of-print books and textbooks online. Among the books from sellers whose inventories are indexed, users can compare prices for over 150 million books for sale and purchase titles directly from the bookseller, without a markup. The search engine focuses primarily on English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch language titles.2 It was founded by Anirvan Chatterjee.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1

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BookFinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers find and buy new, used, rare, out-of-print books and textbooks online.2

The story

Founded by Anirvan Chatterjee in 1999.1

BookFinder.com was founded in 1997 by Anirvan Chatterjee, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally known as MX BookFinder, it was relaunched as BookFinder.com in 1998 and established as a standalone company based in Berkeley, California in 1999.

In 2005, BookFinder.com was acquired by AbeBooks, which itself was purchased by Amazon.com on August 1, 2008.

BookFinder.com started operating in Europe under the JustBooks brand in 2006. The network includes JustBooks sites for France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

From Wikipedia’s article on BookFinder.com, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

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