亚马逊称同意购买AbeBooks，一个主要销售常用的、有价值的、绝版书籍的在线商城。收购条款尚未透露。

AbeBooks为一家私企，位于加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省，销售来自全世界数千家自由销售商的图书。亚马逊称，这个线书城有1.1亿的书籍待售。

亚马逊负责图书业务的副总裁Russell Grandinetti 说：“作为读者，找稀有的书籍是非常困难的。AbeBooks给全世界的读者提供了更宽更全面的选择机会。”

这个计划希望在第四季度结束之前结束。亚马逊计划在维多利亚和哥伦比亚继续独立运作，将保持他的所有网站，包括加拿大的一些例如加拿大书籍作者的评论以及本土作家的采访。

到今年为止，亚马逊已经收购了在线纺织商城Fabric.com和音频图书销售商Audible。扩大了日益增长的手工和业余爱好市场的份额。

华尔街的Sanford C.Bernstein公司分析师JeffreyLindsay最近发表的研究报告称，谷歌和亚马逊最有可能抵抗经济的低迷，成为互联网领域的佼佼者。

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原文如下：

Amazon.com To Buy Online Bookseller AbeBooks
By Antone GonsalvesInformationWeek Fri Aug 1, 7:44 PM ET
    Amazon.com on Friday said it has agreed to buy AbeBooks, an online marketplace for mostly used, rare, and out-of-print books. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Privately held AbeBooks, based in British Columbia, Canada, lists books from thousands of independent sellers worldwide, Amazon said. The online marketplace has more than 110 million books for sale.
    "As a leader in rare and hard-to-find books, AbeBooks brings added breadth and expanded selection to our customers worldwide," Russell Grandinetti, VP of books for Amazon, said in a statement.
    The transaction is expected to close before the end of the fourth quarter. Amazon plans to have AbeBooks continue as a standalone operation based in Victoria, British Columbia. It will maintain all of its Web sites, including the ones in Canada with Canadian content, such as reviews of Canadian-authored books and interviews with that country's writers.
    So far this year, Amazon has bought online fabric store Fabric.com and audiobook seller Audible. Fabric.com, based in Marietta, Ga., expands Amazon's offerings in the growing craft and hobby marketplace.
    A recent report by Jeffrey Lindsay, analyst for Wall Street firm Sanford C. Bernstein, argued that Google and Amazon are in the best position to withstand the current economic downturn and become long-term winners on the Internet.
    His report, "U.S. Internet: The End Of The Beginning," also argued that Yahoo would eventually be sold to Microsoft; IAC InterActiveCorp, which owns a number of travel, financial, and other commerce sites, would be split five ways as planned; and eBay would become a merger target, the Reuters news agency reported.