On Friday I had just wandered into Grafton Books and overheard the new owner telling someone about Abebooks as a way of getting a title she was looking for. The customer was very impressed and commented that "Wow, that must be some big American corporation did that!" The owner made some comment like, "Well, not really." Then I piped up saying that she was talking to one of the founders of Abebooks and it was a local Victoria company. The customer was floored!
I love Abebooks! The little library in our small village of Carquieranne had a wonderful book called "Provence Des Campaniles" which has great photos, poetry, prose, etc on the wrought iron bell towers that are very prevalent in southern France. We tried to buy this book in France but it is out of print and never seemed to be in used bookstores even in Paris. We returned home and went on Abebooks and found a copy, no problem!
