Sentences with phrase «of shelfie»

The beauty of Shelfie is that we really know all the books that are on a reader's shelf [because the reader provides photos of bookshelves to the system].

«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.»

Other major publishing partners of Shelfie include HarperCollins, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and McGraw - Hill.

E-book giant Rakuten Kobo has announced the acquisition of Shelfie, a Vancouver - based startup that allowed people to take pictures of shelves of books, and find out which ones are available as free or discounted ebooks or audiobooks.

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.

We are grateful for the support we have received from amazing readers like you, who have been a part of Shelfie.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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».

Take a picture of your bookshelf (a.k.a. a «shelfie»).

Some of the publishers that signed on to deal with Shelfie, include Blackstone Audio, Gildan Media, Hachette Audio, HarperAudio, Scholastic Audio and Naxos Audiobooks.

Shelfie / BITLIT will continue to hold onto all of the patents that they own and are likely going to be shopping them around to Amazon or Kobo.

Shelfie is an app whereby you can take a picture of your bookshelf and get a list of all of the audiobooks or e-books you can get discounts on.

You simply have to download the Shelfie app for Android and iOS and take a picture of your bookshelf.

Take a photo of your bookshelf (yes, a «shelfie») and the app will produce a personalized list of recommendations based on how tens of thousands of your fellow readers have shelved millions of books.

The most notable events of 2015 were BITLIT (Shelfie) offering people who owned a print book to get the audio edition at a cheaper cost.

Shelfie works with over 1,200 publishers including three of the Big Five publishers, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Hachette.

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.

Shelfie is a free app that gets books off the shelves by offering free or deeply discounted ebook editions of those print -LSB-...]

Take a shelfie (a photo of your bookshelf) and the app will create a digital catalogue of your book collection.

Shelfie is a free app that gets books off the shelves by offering free or deeply discounted ebook editions of those print books.

Shelfie takes the legwork out of finding deals on ebooks you'll actually enjoy reading.

The Shelfie Deal Finder then curates a list of recommended titles based on how you and hundreds of thousands of other readers organize their bookshelves.

BITLIT has an app called Shelfie that allows people to take a picture of their bookshelves and it produces a detailed list of what books you own that are eligible to get an audio upgrade.

Readers take photos of their books» spines on their shelves and send them to BitLit via an app, branded as Shelfie.

Shelfie is a digital bundling platform that allows you to scan your physical bookshelf and it will produce a list of audiobooks and e-books that are eligible to receive discounts.

If you have an extensive print collection you can scan your bookshelf with their Shelfie app and get a list of all of the titles that have an e-book counterpart.

And most recently, Hudson shared some of the indications his Shelfie consumer data for ebook subscriptions.

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.

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 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.

Clearly, one of the most attractive elements of this for a publisher could be the data that Shelfie collected on a reader who, perhaps long ago, had bought a print copy of a book — without a trace of consumer data on the transaction — and suddenly having that customer come back into view, if you will, by asking for the ebook edition.

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.

For some time, the Vancouver - based Shelfie — which was created as BitLit Media — has been seen as an example of perseverance and grit among publishing startups.

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.

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.

Over the coming months, Kobo will work to integrate the Shelfie platform into its Android and iOS apps, enabling readers to add their print libraries to their reading history to generate ever more tailored eBook recommendations, as well as the option to get digital versions of print titles they already own.

By taking a photo of their bookshelf (a «shelfie»), readers can identify a list of books that are eligible for digital bundles.

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.

BitLit's Shelfie mobile app takes an interesting approach to digital content by letting readers download or purchase a discounted ebook version of their print edition books.

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.

Here's how it works: users snap a photo of their bookshelf (also known as a «shelfie») and the BitLit app will tell them which books are eligible for download.

So let's say my shelfie shows BitLit that I have a print copy of Chuck Wendig's Mockingbird (2012, Angry Robot).

The BitLit - Shelfie concept has made it well past 1,000 days now and is standing with bundling of either ebooks or audiobooks at some 24.2 percent.

Called a «Shelfie «-- now the re-branding of the company to reflect BitLit's consumer - facing operation — the mechanism involved is a mobile app that takes a photo of the reader's bookshelf and sends that photo to Vancouver.

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.