![]() ![]() People who come to Kobo already have a history of reading in print that we don't want to ignore. ![]() Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn said, "We know our best customers move fluidly between formats, reading digitally and in print, and we welcome this opportunity to bring their entire reading life together. ![]() Kobo is now working on integrating the Shelfie platform with its Android and iOS apps. Shelfie ceased operations in January, and Kobo had worked with the company to help customers transfer their e-book libraries to Kobo's platform, so that they would continue to have access to their e-books. ![]() and grew to offer more than 450,000 e-books and audiobooks that booklovers could purchase at a discount or download free of charge. (Via iOS and Android devices, users scanned the spines of their books.) The deal includes technology assets, IP and infrastructure, as well as Shelfie's team, which Kobo described as specializing in "the application of big data and machine learning for book discovery." Shelfie was founded in 2013 by Peter Hudson and Marius Muja as BitLit Media Inc. Rakuten Kobo has bought Shelfie, the service that allowed customers to obtain free or discounted e-book versions of books in their print libraries and receive recommendations based on print books they already own. ![]()
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