Book Stacks Unlimited
Book Stacks Unlimited was the first online book store . It went online in 1992 (three years before Jeff Bezos Amazon.com ) and was founded by Charles M. Stack.
The shop started as a dial-up bulletin board in Cleveland, Ohio, and was later in the Web under Books.com accessed online where it reached half a million visitors per month. The book inventory comprised 500,000 titles.
Quotes from Charles M. Stack
- "I've always read a lot, so that was the germ of the idea. I'll pick a subject and read every book ever published on it. That's hard to do if you shop at a walk-in bookstore. Even the superstores don't have more than a couple of titles per topic. My dream was to have a bookstore that had every book ever published to feed my own habit. "
- "Anyone with an Internet account can now connect to Book Stacks for free from anywhere in the world ..."
Web links
- Visionary in obscurity (English) ( Memento of 21 November 2008 at the Internet Archive )