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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 [...]



Suffering Shelfari Spam? Opt Out

By Jane • Jul 23rd, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

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 [...]



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 [...]