Book Depository UK Startup Awards, "Online Business of the Year" and "Retailer of the Year". In 2013, it was ranked 5th in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100. In 2009 and 2010, it won "Direct Bookselling Company of the year" at the Bookseller Industry Awards and the Queen's Award For Enterprise. Book Depository Book Depository (previously "The Book Depository") is a UK-based online book seller with a large catalogue offered with free shipping to over 160 countries. The store was founded by a former Amazon employee. In 2011 it was acquired by Amazon. The company was founded in 2004 by Andrew Crawford
Comic book collecting a few specialist shops had opened their doors by the 1960s, but were still a small market. In the UK, the only distribution channels available were ordinary news stands and mail order publications like "Exchange and Mart" or through zines run by the early panelologists themselves. Denver, Colorado-based retailer Chuck Rozanski played a large role in the growth of the comics speculation market in 1977 when he acquired the high-value "Mile High Collection" — 16,000 comic books dating from 1937 to 1955 — and slowly began releasing select books into the marketplace. During the late 1970s–early 1980s major comic publishers