AbeBooks (/ˈeɪb.bʊks/ AYB-buuks[1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries.

[8][9] In 2018, the company announced it would no longer fully support sellers from a number of countries, including South Korea, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

The company manages regional websites for North America, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Spain.

[11] In February 2015 ABE recorded its most expensive sales up to that time: a rare illustrated ornithology book was sold on behalf of one of its dealers for $191,000.

Other highend sales included Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing To the Parliament of England by John Milton for $65,000 and The Hobbit by J.R.R.

Booksellers upload their inventory data to the AbeBooks database, specifying information about each book including condition and price.

Items available range from the extremely common, where there might be hundreds of copies listed, to first editions and signed books worth thousands of dollars.

In addition to books, the marketplace also offers periodicals and journals, fine art such as prints and posters, vintage photographs, maps, sheet music and paper ephemera such as postcards, letters and other documents.

[citation needed] AbeBooks's localized storefronts, which differ in language and currency, are differentiated by top-level domain and country code: Similar websites include BookFinder.com and LibraryThing.