It’s an exciting
day here at Shelfari. The rain has stopped, the birds are chirping and the
biggest news of all – we are being acquired by Amazon.com.
As many of you may
already know, Amazon has been a long supporter of Shelfari. They’ve worked
closely with us as we introduced readers, like you, to our global community of
book lovers. They’ve been there each step of the way as we brought forth new
features, like the cool Facebook application and our virtual bookshelf. And now
Shelfari and Amazon will work hand in hand to continue to grow our dynamic
community and create innovative new tools around the books you love.
We’ve got some big
plans ahead. With more resources and Amazon’s expertise in building a platform
where people come to share ideas, there are a lot of new opportunities in the
future that will benefit each of you. In the meantime, you’ll continue to have
access to the great community and tools that you’ve always known and used on
the site.
Amazon and Shelfari
are committed to enhancing our members’ experiences so we want to hear from you
on what we can do better. What changes or suggestions do you have? Tell us how you’d
like to see Shelfari and Amazon work together to make your site experience the
best it can be. We invite you to send us your questions, comments and
suggestions to questions@shelfari.com.
We look forward to
working with Amazon to continue with our mission of building great communities
that celebrate books. As I said earlier, this is a very exciting day for the
entire Shelfari team and community, and we are thrilled to join the Amazon
family. Thanks for your continued support and stay tuned for great things to come
on the site.
Best,
Josh
Congratulation Josh!
Long time since OMA ;-)
Posted by: Axel Ferrazzini | August 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM
cool seeing. seems to just make sense to have a shelfari in the amazon. looking forward to seeing what exciting (hopefully not scary) things come out of it.
the combination of amazon and shelfari just seem so poetic.. check out my latest post..
http://web-poet.com/2008/08/26/amazonian-safari/
and please leave a comment
TWL
Posted by: Web Laureate | August 26, 2008 at 02:01 PM
FYI- Your web contact form is giving error messages when I try to use it.
Posted by: Scott K | August 26, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Congratulations Josh, Kevin, Dave and the Shelfari team! You accomplished a lot on limited resources over the past two years, and you should feel proud of yourselves. It will be exciting to see you bring your innovation and the Shelfari service offering to the Amazon customer base!
Posted by: Alex Algard | August 26, 2008 at 03:16 PM
I'd never heard of Shelfari before, but after signing up and using it, I must say that it's a great service and I can see why Amazon.com would be interested in acquiring it. Good luck!
Posted by: John | August 26, 2008 at 09:31 PM
great news for amazon and shelfari what does this means for amazon associates
Posted by: Gary | August 27, 2008 at 01:14 AM
Congratulations! Great news!
Posted by: maksym | August 27, 2008 at 06:14 AM
Way to go guys! Need a widget to use with WordPress and will be happy as a piggy in you-know-what!
Keep up the great work!
Rick
Posted by: Rick Zwetsch | August 27, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Hi guys,
Love the site and congrats on the sale.
Would be great if you can get integration with the social aggregator service FriendFeed. Longer term, I see more of my friends clicking through to your site that way rather than me inviting them to join yet another social network.
I'm assuming that amazon will be getting your wishlist intergrated with the existing Amazon wishlist? If not, would love for that to happen as well.
Well done !
Ross.
Posted by: Ross Bailey | August 27, 2008 at 03:42 PM
Great! Another small independent website eaten up by the giant Amazon! Don't Amazon have enough of a hold over the books world already?
Posted by: Bette | September 05, 2008 at 03:50 AM