BookFinder.com

{{Short description|Vertical search website owned by Amazon}}

{{distinguish|text=BookFinder, former name of Z-Library}}

{{Infobox website

| name = BookFinder.com

| logo = BookFinder.com logo.png

| url = {{URL|https://www.bookfinder.com/}}

| commercial = Yes

| type = Comparison shopping website

| programming_language= Perl{{cite web|last1=Robert|first1=Kirrily|title=Site review: BookFinder|url=http://perlbuzz.com/2007/09/site-review-bookfinder.html|website=Perlbuzz|access-date=14 July 2014|ref=perlbuzz|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023221519/http://perlbuzz.com/2007/09/site-review-bookfinder.html|archive-date=23 October 2014}}

| owner = AbeBooks (Amazon)

| launch_date = {{start date and age|1997|01|30}}

| current_status = Active

}}

BookFinder.com is a vertical search website that helps readers buy books online. The site's meta-search engine scans the inventories of over 100,000 booksellers located around the world. Among the books from sellers whose inventories are indexed, users can find the lowest price for a book of their choice from over 150 million volumes available for sale, and purchase titles directly from the bookseller, without a markup.{{cite journal|last1=Maul|first1=Kimberly|title=Bookfinder: Eliminating obscurity|website=TheBookseller.com|date=March 2, 2007|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=18&a=35096|access-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619002723/http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=18&a=35096|archive-date=June 19, 2008}}{{cite web|title=About BookFinder.com|url=http://www.bookfinder.com/about/|website=BookFinder.com|access-date=14 July 2014}} The search engine is focused primarily on Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language titles.

BookFinder.com was founded in 1997 by Anirvan Chatterjee, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley; it was one of the earliest vertical search engines for books online.{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/bookend/bookend.html|title = Want to Buy a Rare Book? Click Here.|last = Max|first = D. T.|date = September 13, 1998|work = The New York Times|access-date = July 14, 2014}} Originally known as MX BookFinder, it was relaunched as BookFinder.com in 1998 and established as a standalone company based in Berkeley, California in 1999.

In 2005, BookFinder.com was acquired by AbeBooks,{{Cite news|url = http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3562321|title = Book Sites Unite|last = Needle|first = David|date = November 7, 2005|work = InternetNews|access-date = July 14, 2014}} which itself was purchased by Amazon.com on August 1, 2008.{{cite press release |author= |title=Amazon.com Acquires AbeBooks |url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1231146&highlight= |location=Seattle, Washington & Victoria, British Columbia |publisher=Amazon.com |access-date=2014-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620123804/http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1231146&highlight= |archive-date=2017-06-20 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web

|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/01/amazon-to-acquire-abebooks/ |last=Arrington|first=Michael|work=TechCrunch|title=Amazon To Acquire AbeBooks, And With It A Stake In LibraryThing}}

BookFinder.com started operating in Europe under the JustBooks brand in 2006. There are currently JustBooks/BookFinder.com portals for France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.