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Amazon Buys Another Books-Focused Social Site Shelfari

Aug 25, 2008 11:27 PM

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying up another books-focused social network Shelfari, three weeks after it acquired AbeBooks, which holds a 40 percent stake in Shelfari’s main rival, LibraryThing. The Seattle-based startup was founded last year by Josh Hug, the former director of device engineering at RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), and in…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Amazon, abebooks, librarything, shelfari

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