Alternatives and competitors
Sites like AbeBooks
The 20 closest Used book marketplace alternatives to AbeBooks, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to AbeBooks? The closest matches are ThriftBooks, Bookshop.org and eBay. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About AbeBooks
AbeBooks abebooks.com
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
Wikidata: online book seller
Summary by Claude
Online marketplace where independent booksellers worldwide sell used, rare, out-of-print and collectible books, plus fine art and collectibles.
- Who it’s for
- Book buyers, collectors and readers
- Business model
- Seller commissions and fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to AbeBooks’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to AbeBooks
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AbeBooks, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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US-based online used bookseller
Very close cos 0.930 - 02
book e-commerce website
Very close cos 0.926 - 03
Error Page | eBay
American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
Very close cos 0.927 - 04
online auction platform
Very close cos 0.918 - 05
etsy.com
American e-commerce company
Very close cos 0.919 - 06
Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT
World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
Very close cos 0.908 - 07
online print-on-demand marketplace that was founded in 2006 that allow users to sell art on their platform
Very close cos 0.908 - 08
American multinational technology company
Very close cos 0.901 - 09
Pixels | Art You'll Love from Independent Artists
Pixels is the place for affordable wall art, t-shirts, art prints, phone cases, and more from independent artists and global brands. All Pixels orders include a 30 day money-back guarantee and help support living artists all over the world.
- Google Search Console
- Amazon Route 53
- Apache HTTP Server
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Very close cos 0.901 - 10
Penguin Random House
Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.
Very close cos 0.896 - 11
e-commerce crowdsourcing site where artists can upload and sell their designs
Very close cos 0.900 - 12
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online marketplace
Very close cos 0.901 - 13
BrickLink - Buy and sell LEGO Parts, Sets and Minifigures
online marketplace for LEGO
Very close cos 0.897 - 14
Chinese online marketplace owned by PDD Holdings
Very close cos 0.900 - 15
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platform for building online shops
Very close cos 0.899 - 16
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webshop in the Netherlands
Very close cos 0.897 - 17
Wish | Shop and Save
Discover affordable items for your home and life needs. Enjoy our money back guarantee, frequent discounts, flat rate shipping (select markets), and more.
Very close cos 0.898 - 18
Zugriff verweigert / Access denied
Germany's largest online vehicle marketplace
Very close cos 0.899 - 19 autotrader.com Top 10K
is an online marketplace for car shoppers and sellers. It aggregates millions of new, used, and certified second-hand cars from thousands of dealers and private sellers.
Very close cos 0.897 - 20
online luxury fashion marketplace
Very close cos 0.895
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to abebooks.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones AbeBooks uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What AbeBooks is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=FD47CFC0B7963A0C1F1188BD521D2A02CFE12E6D26B3E5C7A…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: Y-IJYHMqTYi0ZpoRzMCeTyCuk2fGUt5EjFHyLyZ63w_sXSrVr6Df8Q==
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms14925990
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf1.amazon.com include:spf2.amazon.com include:amazon…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-148.awsdns-18.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZT4AapXgobCpXIWoNcd7gtMjZyOUdr4EDFMnFUW…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=VpUsJZxt_16j3r7pcOpdvg
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JTPx2-G7CvPiiPJsAsMAWAx1tJVn9aviyV_B6rY2yWM
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AbeBooks adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Atlassian 14/20
- Apple Business · not on abebooks.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on abebooks.com 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on abebooks.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- DocuSign · not on abebooks.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on abebooks.com 6/20
- Akamai · not on abebooks.com 6/20
- Stripe 6/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- Miro · not on abebooks.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on abebooks.com 4/20
- Adobe · not on abebooks.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on abebooks.com 4/20