Telebuch.de
Telebuch.de (also known under the names ABC-Bücherdienst and Telebook Ltd. ) was one of the first companies to successfully operate online trading in Germany .
The company founded by Ulrike Stadler and Michael JG Gleissner in Regensburg in 1991 initially sold German and foreign-language books under the address * TELEBUCH # in the BTX system of the former Deutsche Bundespost and, from 1995, also on the Internet . The company's success was based, among other things, on the fast and inexpensive delivery of English-language titles for the time, which was made possible by a weekly direct import via air freight from the USA.
In April 1998 the owners Maria Garcia Nielsen, Ulrike Stadler, Christian Jagodzinski and Michael JG Gleissner sold the entire company ABC-Bücherdienst GmbH to the US Internet bookseller Amazon.com for a double-digit million amount. At that time Telebuch.de had branches in Spain, the USA and Namibia . In Germany, the company was the market leader in online book retailing. On October 15, 1998, the “telebuch.de” page was renamed “amazon.de”. Even then, when Amazon was expanding into European markets, there was talk of cutthroat competition .
Web links
- Telebuch project computerbuch.de ( Memento from May 17, 1998 in the Internet Archive )
- Brief history of the ABC book database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Copy of the report with the American Securities and Exchange Commission ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A “little false start”: Amazon.de officially opens its homepage . In: Computerwoche from October 15, 1998
- ↑ Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti: Amazon buys online bookseller ABC auf Heise online from April 29, 1998
- ↑ Back to the future - regionalization in global Internet trade: Amazon.com is putting the competition under pressure with the purchase of Telebuch.de ( Memento from December 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Computerwoche from May 8, 1998