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[[File:Entrance of books Head Office 20141210.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The entrance to Books.com.tw's headquarters]]
[[File:Books-com-tw box W020 20130125.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A package delivered from Books.com.tw. (DHL is used to overseas.)]]
'''Books.com.tw''' or '''Pok'elai''' ({{Lang-zh|博客來}}), originally established as an [[online bookstore]], is [[Taiwan]]'s largest [[Internet retailer]].
==History==
* 1995: Terry Chang (Chinese: [[:zh:張天立|張天立]]), who had graduated from [[National Taiwan University]] (math) and had had graduate study at [[Pennsylvania State University]] (computer) and [[Rutgers University]] (business), 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]]. <ref> [http://www.books.com.tw/isi/aboutbooks.htm?loc=footer_01_001 About Pok'elai] (in Chinese) </ref>
* 1996: Books.com.tw ({{Lang-zh|博客來網路書店}}) officially started its business.
* 2000: started "Order to Books.com.tw and receive/pay at [[Uni-President Enterprises Corporation]]'s [[7-Eleven#Taiwan|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. <ref> Traditional Chinese books are not, however, permitted to be sold in the mainland. See: [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/07/15/2003567146 Publishing industry laments 'unfair' service pact]  (''[[Taipei Times]]'', July 15, 2013) </ref>
* 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 (cumulative).
* 2014: In [[Hong Kong]], started "Order to Books.com.tw and receive/pay at [[Dairy Farm International Holdings|Dairy Farm]]'s [[7-Eleven#Hong Kong|7-Eleven]] store" service.
==Competitors==
* [http://www.yesasia.com/us/ja/home.html YesAsia.com]
* [http://m.sanmin.com.tw/ Sanmin Online Bookstore]
==See also==
* [[Uni-President Enterprises Corporation]]
* [[Yamato Transport]]'
* [[Dairy Farm International Holdings]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.books.com.tw/ Official site]
[[Category:Online retailers of  Taiwan]]
[[Category:Book websites]]