The Internet Bookshop

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The Internet Bookshop was a British company, most recently as a public company, which is considered the world's first online bookseller .

history

In 1993, the British entrepreneur Darryl Mattocks planned to start an Internet mail order business for books. He implemented the concept in 1994 on the bookshop.co.uk domain . The start-up project was created under the simplest conditions with little capital investment, especially without its own warehouse and essentially operated on the founder's laptop . In March 1997 the company went public.

Four years after it was founded, Mattocks sold the pioneering company, including the domain, to WHSmith for £ 9.4 million .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Peter Cunningham, Friedrich Fröschl: Electronic Business Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century . Springer Science & Business Media, September 9, 1999, ISBN 978-3-540-66211-2 , pp. 35-.
  2. ↑ Colin Barrow: Get Backed, Get Big, Get Bought: Plan your start-up with the end in mind . John Wiley & Sons, July 28, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906465-89-6 , pp. 18f.
  3. ^ Rory Cellan-Jones: Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.com Britain . Aurum Press, September 1, 2001, ISBN 978-1-78131-029-8 , pp. 18f ..
  4. ↑ The Nation, August 12, 1997: Making a fortune from chapters
  5. ↑ BBC News, June 8, 1998: WH Smith logs on to £ 9m internet book deal