Sentences with phrase «in shelfie»

This is common in Shelfie's development: its arrangements — as is explained on this page of its site for publishers — are made with publishers for bundling rights.

Not exact matches

Here's a shelfie from General Store, a mainstay boutique in SF.

I loved the idea of Shelfie but when I tried it, I found that the print books in my library were not available as ebooks through Shelfie.

It's true, nobody ever heard about BitLit and the brand change to Shelfie was in my opinion damaging: it sort of looked like «yet another photo sharing thing, but specifically about books».

Shelfie formally known as Bit.lit launched in 2013 and the company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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.

This is the company that Bitlit has partnered with, in order to power the audiobook portion of their Shelfie app.

Typically, the Shelfie catalogue will cover 25 % of your library, but if you like sci - fi, fantasy, Christian, or technical books, you're in luck.

The Shelfie catalogue is particularly strong in these genres.

When Shelfie identifies that a book on your recommended list goes on sale, the app alerts you via email and an in - app notification to buy the book on iBooks.

Shelfie app partners with U.S. bookstore; Ruth Ozeki on embodied writing; on avoiding childbirth scenes in fiction; and other news.

In his most recent interview with Publishing Perspectives, Hudson noted how big a role its data - gathering capacity was playing: «At Shelfie,» he said, «we love our data.»

In the type experiment many have wished more brick - and - mortar bookstores might try, the venerable Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is announcing today (May 3) an innovative new partnership that pairs print and ebook copies of books for customers using the Canadian service ShelfiIn the type experiment many have wished more brick - and - mortar bookstores might try, the venerable Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is announcing today (May 3) an innovative new partnership that pairs print and ebook copies of books for customers using the Canadian service Shelfiin Cambridge, Massachusetts, is announcing today (May 3) an innovative new partnership that pairs print and ebook copies of books for customers using the Canadian service 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.

One of the most energetically expanding startups in publishing, Vancouver - based Shelfie — which began life in 2013 as BitLit Media — has some 1,400 participating publishers now in its ebook bundling scheme, which uses smart phone apps (Android and iSO) to capture the interests of print - book owners and offer them ebook editions of those print books.

The program, according to Shelfie Vice President for Content Mary Alice Elcock in response to Publishing Perspectives» question, is actually an arrangement with Houghton.

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.

Readers can also take part in a literacy initiative in which McDonald's and First Book Canada donate a book to a Canadian child in need for every «shelfie» — a photo of a bookshelf — uploaded to a social media platform with the hashtag #OwnaBookGiveaBook.

In April 2017 Kobo acquired Shelfie and Michael Tamblyn explains on what he liked about the company» There are three parts of Shelfie that were very interesting to us.

Via any iOS or Android device, users snapped a photo of their bookshelf, and through patented technology, Shelfie scanned the spines of every book to identify titles and give readers a complete inventory of their collection, and served them the available equivalent titles in digital — free of charge or at a promotional price.

Founded in 2013 by Peter Hudson and Marius Muja, as BitLit Media Inc., Shelfie grew to offer more than 450,000 eBooks and audiobooks that booklovers could purchase at a discount or download free of charge.

Shelfie's R&D team, which specializes in the application of big data and machine learning for discovering books, will also be hired by Rakuten Kobo.

Shelfie, which was founded in 2013 in Vancouver, officially ceased its operations in January.

And BitLit's Shelfie suddenly is bundling audiobooks as well as ebooks in a deal with Findaway.

In the next few months, Kobo said it will work to integrate Shelfie's platform into its Android and iOS apps, enabling readers to add their print libraries to their digital reading history, and more tailored ebook recommendations.

Unlike so many startups in publishing that now are defunct, BitLit and its Shelfie - branded reader - facing presences are a success.

Whether a reader starts by sending in a «shelfie» picture of a bookshelf or simply wants the ebook edition of something in his or her collection, the process of claiming an ebook is the same.

Vancouver's Shelfie program adds Harvard Book Store to the list of cooperative books points in which ebooks are being bundled with print editions.

[dropcap] I [/ dropcap] n the type experiment many have wished more brick - and - mortar bookstores might try, the venerable Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is announcing today (May 3) an innovative new partnership that pairs print and ebook copies of books for customers using the Canadian service Shelfie.

There's a new book app in town, and it is asking readers to «Take a Shelfie».

Shelfie's executives in Canada talk about the startup scene in book publishing — and conclude it's not as hot as it used to be.

Shelfie's De Gruyter partnership marks the first time that the publisher's full catalog of titles will be available to their individual customers in ebook bundles.

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«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.»

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Shelfie's executives talk with us (and wax poetic) about the startup scene in publishing — and lessons learned.

While I've spent my whole career in the publishing industry, I certainly feel that I've learned more about publishing in the last three years than I knew coming into Shelfie and I think that makes our team better at working within the industry.

These old wooden logs were destined for the fire, but with just a little Gold Leaf they've turned in to something precious and worthy of their place on Annie Sloan's «Christmas Shelfie» 2016.