The Bookselling Online Blog is collecting responses to Abebooks’ BookFinder acquisition from some of BookFinder’s other clients — Abebooks’ competitors Biblio and Alibris — and now from AddAll, one of BookFinder’s direct competitors. They also secured reassurances from Abebooks that they won’t be taking advantage of their new conflict of interest.

The acquisition is a good move for BookFinder and good news from its users. New resources (money, servers, and people) gives them the chance to expand and fine tune their service. Perhaps they’ll work out a way to integrate information like dealer reputation and shipping charges into their search results.

I haven’t seen any speculation about this elsewhere, but I’m guessing one of the things that made BookFinder an attractive buy is the BookFinder team’s expertise in analyzing search trends.