While I have a biased opinion [Harper Collins was among the first major publishers to work
with Shelfie, or BitLit as it was called at the time], I think this is to their long - term advantage.
After Shelfie's shutdown, Kobo worked
with Shelfie to allow customers to transfer their ebook collections to Kobo's platform until February 28.
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.
We want to change that
with Shelfie.
With Shelfie, you can find those readers.
Some of the publishers that signed on to deal
with Shelfie, include Blackstone Audio, Gildan Media, Hachette Audio, HarperAudio, Scholastic Audio and Naxos Audiobooks.
Not exact matches
Though we wish it would, right along
with the dronie, the helfie, the
shelfie, the welfie and, lest we should leave narcissistic farmers out, the felfie.
Personalizing a little nest
with a cute
shelfie also helps.
This is the company that Bitlit has partnered
with, in order to power the audiobook portion of their
Shelfie app.
Shelfie works
with over 1,200 publishers including three of the Big Five publishers, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Hachette.
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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.»
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.
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.
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.
And BitLit's
Shelfie suddenly is bundling audiobooks as well as ebooks in a deal
with Findaway.
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.
Vancouver's
Shelfie program adds Harvard Book Store to the list of cooperative books points in which ebooks are being bundled
with print editions.
• Kobo Acquires
Shelfie Technology: Here's Looking at Your Books • A New Sales Tracking Tool for Self - Published Authors • Amazon Launches Kindle Create Software for Formatting Ebooks • The Growing and Distinctive Self - Publishing Market in Germany —
with Traditional Overtones • Authors Guild Releases Its Guide to E-Publishing
Shelfie's executives talk
with us (and wax poetic) about the startup scene in publishing — and lessons learned.
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.
And
with more than 2,100 publishers on board,
Shelfie is showing no signs of slowing its growth.
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.