Book Stacks Unlimited war der erste Onlinebuchladen. Er ging 1992 (also drei Jahre vor Jeff Bezos Amazon.com) online und wurde von Charles M. Stack gegründet.
Der Shop startete als Dial-up Bulletin Board in Cleveland, Ohio und war später im Web unter Books.com online erreichbar, wo er eine halbe Million Besucher pro Monat erreichte. Der Buchbestand umfasste 500.000 Titel.
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- "I've always read a lot, so that was the germ of the idea. I'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 don't have more than a couple of titles per topic. My dream was to have a bookstore that had every book ever published to feed my own habit."
- "Anyone with an Internet account can now connect to Book Stacks for free from anywhere in the world..."
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- (Memento vom 21. November 2008 im Internet Archive)