Take a Picture! Print-Audiobook Bundles via New Shelfie, Findaway Partnership
Today, Shelfie announces a partnership with leading audiobook distributor, Findaway, to offer audiobook bundles to readers on titles from Blackstone Audio, Gildan Media, Hachette Audio, HarperAudio, Naxos Audiobooks and Scholastic Audio.
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By taking a photo of their bookshelf (a “shelfie”), readers can identify a list of books eligible for digital bundles. Readers are able to download an ebook or audiobook by using the app to snap a photo of their book’s copyright page marked with a bookplate or their handwritten name.
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Shelfie adds 20,000 audiobooks to their catalogue of 250,000 ebook titles already available for bundling. Major publishing partners included in the ebook bundling program are HarperCollins, Macmillan, Workman, Rodale, Abrams, Baker Publishing Group, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and O’Reilly.
Read the Complete Announcement
Direct to Shelfie Website
Filed under: Elsevier, News, Publishing, Scholastic
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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