Book Stacks Unlimited

Book Stacks Unlimited was the first online bookstore. He went in 1992 ( two years before Jeff Bezos Amazon.com ) online and was founded by Charles M. Stack.

The shop started as a dial-up bulletin board in Cleveland, Ohio and was later on the Web at Books.com accessible online, where it reached half a million visitors per month. The book inventory included 500,000 titles.

Quotes by Charles M. Stack

  • " I've always read a lot, so what did the germ of the idea. '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 do not have more than a couple of titles by topic. My dream what to have a bookstore did had every book ever published to feed my own habit. "
  • " Anyone with at Internet account can now connect to Book Stacks for free from anywhere in the world ... "
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