viaLibri.net
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| Industry | Retail (Specialty) |
| Founded 📆 | 2006 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Cambridge, England |
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Key people | Jim Hinck, founder CEO; Alasdair North, CTO |
| Products 📟 | used books, rare books, antiquarian books, manuscripts, out of print books |
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| 🌐 Website | viaLibri.net |
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viaLibri is a global website and metasearch engine that helps its users locate and purchase old, rare, and out-of-print books. Its search engine aggregates results from over 30 multi-dealer bookselling sites, including Amazon and eBay, as well as numerous individual booksellers.[1] It is widely used by collectors who look for rare and valuable books, as well as by antiquarian booksellers and librarians, who use it as a valuation tool.[2][3] Because of its inclusion of worldwide rare book dealers, ViaLibri.net is currently the largest search engine in the world for old, rare, and out-of-print books (2019).
History
The company was founded in 2006 by Jim Hinck, a rare book dealer who taught himself programming. The business was initially organized as a division of Hinck & Wall, Inc., his antiquarian bookselling company. In 2010 the business was relocated to Cambridge, England, and spun off as viaLibri Limited.[4] In 2010 Libribot, an automated, title-specific search feature, was launched. In 2012 French and German interfaces[5] were added.
Features
viaLibri's Search Engine enables searching for books by author, title, keyword, publisher/imprint, publication date, and price range. Results can be sorted by date, price, author, title, and seller. Because search results are international, each item description is displayed with a "translate" button linked to Google's translation engine.
Filters, designed with the needs of collectors in mind, sift for first editions; books with dust jackets; signed books; ISBNs; or POD titles.
Search Manager allows users to record and maintain a list of permanent "wants" (specific titles or broader keywords).
Libribot then searches these wants on a daily basis for new arrivals, notifies the user by email when new matches are found, and records these matches for future reference.
Quick Query Library Search is a utility that simplifies searching for books in multiple online library catalogues, including major union catalogues, national libraries, research libraries and university libraries. Users can search several catalogues through a single search form. More than 60 catalogues are included.
Clipboard permits users to keep a complete record of any individual item for future reference. The information will be preserved even after the book has been sold.
563 Years is a feature where users can browse selected illustrated items retrieved from recent matches on the site and grouped by publication year/century. There is a separate list for each year since the beginning of printing by moveable type from the beginning of printing in 1455.
Premium Services are available to subscribers, although most services are free. Premium services include listing books from the subscriber’s own website; Libribot searching for a larger number of wants; permanent archiving of clipboard items; searchable Libribot and Clipboard listings.
References
- ↑ Streitfeld, David. "When a Tech Reporter Doesn't Use Much Tech". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ↑ Newton Gresham Library, SHSU. "Weeding Policy". Newton Gresham Library. Sam Houston State University. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ↑ Newsletter 64, ILAB. "The ILAB Metasearch and the Future of the Online Book Trade - An Interview with Jim Hinck". ILAB.org. International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ↑ Quested, Tony. "'Amazon' of Antiquarian Books Turns the Page". BusinessWeekly.co.uk. Business Weekly. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ↑ Stillman, Michael. "ViaLibri Expands to German Language Site ... and More". Rare Book Hub. Americana Exchange, Inc. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
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