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
UK Online and heavy users were moved onto so called "bad boy pipes" (although this did not appear to happen with LLU connections). Since the regulatory approval of ADSL2+ technology in the UK, "UK Online" were able to offer services with speeds up to 22MB, and were one of the first companies to do so on a national scale. This was still based on the "Easynet" LLU coverage however. In October 2005 BSkyB purchased "Easynet" and so now also owned "UK Online", however "UK Online" continued to exist as a separate entity from Sky Broadband. In January 2008 Easynet Connect was launched