If a book catches my eye, I want a print copy and I don't want to pay full price for it, I usually start with Abebooks, only going to eBay when that fails or fails to suit. As a result, I have bought quite a lot of books from Awesome Books over the years.
For some reason, it came to my attention that Awesome Books was also known as Wrap Ltd, probably company No.03800600, which is run by a trio of Ahmeds and which pays a dividend to Anthracite Holdings Ltd, company No.10971795, owned by the same Ahmeds.
Wrap Ltd is probably not the Wrap Distribution of reference 3, despite the overlap in activities.
While Awesome Books is listed as being dormant and with just one share, owned by one Aloysius Ihezie, probably the chap behind the foundation at reference 4.
To think that it was not so long ago that I used to buy my secondhand books from a rather scruffy shop next to Earlsfield Station.
References
Reference 1: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/. Founded in Canada in 1996, sold to Amazon in 2008.
Reference 2: https://www.awesomebooks.com/. Founded in 2003.
Reference 3: https://www.wrapdistribution.com/. Founded in 1999.
Reference 4: https://www.iheziefoundation.org/.
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