Aug 26 2008
Amazon continues its inexorable march to buy everything on the internet related to books. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Amazon, an early investor in Shelfari, is now buying the book lover site outright. This might signal some kind of merging between Shelfari and LibraryThing.com as Amazon will soon own a stake in both. AbeBooks [...]
Jul 23 2007
Lately I’ve been getting a number of Shelfari invitations from authors who think I might be interested in viewing their virtual bookshelf. While I like to know what people are reading, I’m not interested in getting spam. There was a suggestion at Angie W’s blog that Shelfari overtook your address book and sent out the [...]
Feb 26 2007
Shelfari is a Seattle based company that launched quietly last fall to compete with Library Thing, a commonly seen widget used on reader blogs accross the net. Shelfari allows you to input your books, rate them, and show them off on your blog. You can also enter your amazon associates id and earn money off [...]
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