Ownshelf

Share your ebooks with friends across devices. Like Dropbox for ebooks.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2012
  • Employees 5
  • Website Ownshelf.com

Company Summary

Ownshelf is a cloud-based service to share eBooks across devices. Users share their digital library online, can transfer eBooks to their devices, browse friends’ shelves, and give and borrow eBooks from their friends. The basic service is free, and monetized with a Premium subscription. We are a mass market service introducing people to the cloud via the familiarity of a bookshelf. We are disrupting the discovery and distribution of ebooks.

Team

  • Rick Marazzani
    Founder and CEO

    Experienced product guy with years in the game industry, talking the future of ebook discovery and distribution.

  • Leon Atkinson
    CTO

    Technical founder who LITERALLY wrote the books on PHP and MySQL.

  • Jason Akel
    COO

    Online operations and marketing veteran with mass-market experience.

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