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Amazon to Purchase Shelfari

By Jane • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

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 [...]

Amazon Invests in Online Personal Book Database Software

By Jane • Feb 26th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

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 [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘library-thing’

Amazon to Purchase Shelfari

Amazon Invests in Online Personal Book Database Software

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In re Moderation of Comments and Endorsement of Posts

The Story of Reba Belle: Rage Against the Machine

New and Upcoming Releases

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Jane's Smart Bitch Title