Telebuch.de (also known as ABC-Bücherdienst and Telebook Ltd.) was one of the first companies to successfully operate in Germany.
The company founded by Ulrike Stadler and Michael J. G. Gleissner in Regensburg in 1991 initially sold under the address * TELEBUCH # in the BTX system of the then German Federal Post Office and from 1995 also on the Internet German and foreign language books. The success of the company was based, among other things, on the fast and cheap supply of English-language titles, which was made possible by a weekly direct import via airfreight from the USA
In April 1998 the owners Maria Garcia Nielsen, Ulrike Stadler, Christian Jagodzinski and Michael J.G. Gleissner the entire company ABC-Bücherdienst GmbH to the US Internet bookseller Amazon.com for a double-digit million amount. At this time Telebuch.de had branches in Spain, the USA and Namibia. In Germany, the company was the market leader in online bookshops. On 15 October 1998 the page "telebuch.de" was renamed "amazon.de". Already back then, the expansion of Amazon to the European markets was seen as a repression competition. Single-level Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext
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