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Books.com.tw
Books.com.
tw
or
Pok'elai
, originally
established
as an
online bookstore
, is Taiwan's largest
Internet retailer
.
History
1995: Terry
Chang
, who had graduated from
National Taiwan University
and had had
graduate study
at
Pennsylvania State University
and
Rutgers University
, started the first online bookstore of the Taiwan-Mainland China-Hong Kong area, and established Pok'elai Digital
Science & Technology
Co., Ltd., by the year-end. This was within one year of
the establishment
of Amazon.com.
1996: Books.com.tw officially started its business.
2000: started "Order to Books.com.tw and receive/pay at
Uni-President Enterprises
Corporation's
7-Eleven
store"
service
.
2001: Uni-President Enterprises invested in Books.com.tw.
2004:
Simplified Chinese
books
, published in mainland China, were sold in addition to
Traditional Chinese
books, published in
Taiwan
.
2005:
Yamato
Transport's Tanwan
subsidiary
began to be used for
delivery
to the customers.
2013:
Listed
as one of Taiwan's
100
Largest Companies
for the
fifth year
. Exceeded five million customers.
2014: In
Hong Kong
, started "Order to Books.com.tw and receive/pay at
Dairy
Farm's 7-Eleven store" service.
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