Books are available through
Shelfie from more than 1,300 publishers, including HarperCollins, Macmillan, Hachette Book Group, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Here's
a shelfie from General Store, a mainstay boutique in SF.
Not exact matches
The few titles that did not have digital rights management can be saved to your computer, but the average user will likely not receive the email
from Shelfie in time to do anything about it.
Shelfie, formally known as BITLIT were not able to secure any meaningful titles
from major publishers and were only able to get a few backlist titles.
We are grateful for the support we have received
from amazing readers like you, who have been a part of
Shelfie.
The change
from «BitLit» to «
Shelfie» in the company's branding came with the technology the company has used to «read» a consumer's shelf by having the reader take a photo of the book spines on her or his bookshelf, and then informing that customer of which ebook or audiobook editions were available
from various publishers.
Perhaps one of the most bittersweet of stories
from Shelfie was this conversation with Hudson almost a year ago when he described «cold calling
from Canada» for three years as the «secret» of his success in attracting more than 2.100 publishers to his company.
This month, we'd heard
from Hudson and
Shelfie vice president for content Mary Alice Elcock, in an appraisal with Publishing Perspectives» Carla Douglas of the somewhat cooled publishing startup scene.
«In the fight for attention,» Kobo's Michael Tamblyn tells Publishers» Forum, «our acquisition of
Shelfie was about users sharing the print books
from their reading past.»
Peter Hudson and Mary Alice Elcock of Canada's
Shelfie have first - hand insights that come
from succeeding with a startup — they know what it takes, and why.
Rakuten Kobo Acquires
Shelfie Technology — Kobo continues to plug on, with a decent amount of side - loading
from other sources.