WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION

American Wholesale Book Company is based in Florence, Alabama, and provides complete book wholesale and distribution services for retailers across the Southeast. Additionally, the company has developed to provide Internet fulfillment services for book product sold by various e-commerce companies. The integration of complete wholesale and distribution services within the corporation provides significant economies and opportunities for cost savings for both the retail and e-commerce divisions of Books-A-Million, Inc.

Book$mart, Inc., also located in Florence, Alabama, is a full service bargain book distributor, servicing a large number of retail and wholesale clients throughout the country. Its 200,000 square foot distribution facility offers a tremendous assortment of value-priced books, from specially published packages to publisher remainders of previous bestsellers.

E-COMMERCE AND INTERNET SERVICES DEVELOPMENT

BOOKSAMILLION.COM, the company's e-commerce website, was successfully launched in 1998. Like our stores, the site is open, inviting and focused on the product. Since the site's launch, we have continued to enhance its design, product offerings, editorial content and customer service attributes, as well as maintain our position as a value leader in book e-tailing. Through our American Internet Services division, we continue to develop a suite of e-commerce solutions aimed to meet the needs of a variety of business clients. The acquisition of NetCentral continues to provide us with the development experience and systems resources needed to continue to innovate and compete effectively in the e-commerce arena.