---
title: "Book Depository: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Book Depository was a United Kingdom-based online book seller. Founded by a former Amazon employee, it operated from 2004 to 2023."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-book-depository
type: Organization
wikidata: Q7719162
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_Depository
website: https://www.amazon.com/b/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Book Depository

> Book Depository was a United Kingdom-based online book seller. Founded by a former Amazon employee, it operated from 2004 to 2023.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-book-depository

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United Kingdom
- Founded: 2004-01-01
- Dissolved: 2023-04-26
- Headquarters: London
- Status: closed
- Website: https://www.amazon.com/b/
- Also known as: bookdepository.com, The Book Depository
- Industries: online shopping, bookselling

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/bookdepository
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BookDepository
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookdepository

## Key people

- Andrew Crawford, founder (Irish businessman)

## Ownership

Parent: [Amazon](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-amazon.md)

## Products

- book

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Book Depository, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-book-depository#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7719162, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_Depository

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