January 2012
3 posts
Turning the (web)page
By Matteo Berlucchi, CEO, Anobii
In 2012 there will be many pages turned at Anobii and I thought it would be good for you to hear an update from me about what has been happening behind those bookshelves.
As you will have surely noted if you are based in the UK, we have launched a new website replacing the existing anobii.com. This new site has different functionality from the previous one but...
A new Anobii website for UK readers
For the past couple of months, we have been trialling a new version of the Anobii website and we now think it’s time to open it up to all readers in the UK. From next week, anyone in the UK going to Anobii.com will see our new website.
We are gradually building more features and as we do that, we will be running both sites alongside each other so that existing users will be able to switch...
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Reading copyright free ebooks (UK only!)
As some of our users have been asking about our copyright free ebooks, I thought of sharing some more information on how to read free ebooks with Anobii.
We are offering the Project Gutenberg catalogue to our readers via our apps. We have an iPhone and iPad app and an Android version is coming very soon. These apps are linked to your Anobii account (on the beta site for now) and they sync your...
December 2011
1 post
Anobii wishes you all a very merry Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the house, Not a creature was stirring Not even a mouse. I’d finished my book And turned off the light, Head on the pillow My eyes were shut tight. All of a sudden, I heard a page turn, The book i’d just finished Had started to burn. An elderly man Of six feet or more, Entered the room But not through the door. A sack in one hand...
October 2011
1 post
Frankfurt - ers
One word describes Frankfurt quite well – sausages! We ate them everyday.
This week we were visiting the world’s largest book fair and there is no arguing with the fact that as first time visitors, we were overawed with the size of it. Think of the largest exhibition hall you’ve ever been to, then times it by at least 10.
But we weren’t there just eating sausages obviously, we had one of the...
September 2011
1 post
We're back on the blog
Since the last blog post, we have been sitting twiddling our thumbs and dreaming into space…is anyone still here? Actually, that’s a lie. The last 6 months have been incredibly busy, but that’s no excuse for not keeping our blog up-to-date. Please accept our apologies. There has been a lot of interaction with the Anobii community on Facebook and Twitter since I started as Community Manager...
March 2011
1 post
Good News
I am very happy to let you know that after 4 years of hard work, we have secured the necessary resources to deliver our vision of a social network for book lovers which will help you find the best books, buy them and then share your reading experience with other people.
This vision is why I set up aNobii and I am so excited that we will finally deliver it!
How? It has been made possible by...
December 2010
2 posts
New aNobii iPhone App plus chance to win free...
To celebrate our new iPhone App we have launched a competition on Facebook to win a free iPhone 4: http://bit.ly/anobiicomp
New aNobii iPhone App Helping you find and share great books on the move!
The new iPhone App has a super fast barcode scanner that means you can add all your old books to your virtual library really quickly plus you can read independent reviews about books before you buy....
A faster aNobii
We are happy to announce that our speed improvement initiative is making good progress and showing results.
Before: 69% of pages were generated in under 2 seconds.
Now: 99% of pages are generated in under 2 seconds.
Before: the average load time was 2.9 seconds.
Now: the average load time is 0.31 seconds.
There have been brief hiccups during the upgrade in the past week and we are sorry...
November 2010
1 post
Slowness and downtime
A lot of you have experienced speed issue and downtime these days. We apologize and would like to share what’s going on. Our current systems is 4 year-old. To pave the way for coping with more users and exciting features in the pipeline, we have decided to update the system bit by bit. Recently, we’ve been working on the hardware side of things which has turned out to be tricker than...
February 2010
1 post
aNobii for iPhone 3G
When we launched aNobii iPhone app two months ago, one of the most common comments was “nice … but can you make it work with my 3G?”
Everyone knows 3G lacks auto-focus thus making it difficult to do barcode scanning. Turns out it is not merely more difficult; it is an entirely different challenge. Kudos to the Occipital team who made this possible.
Happy scanning!
aNobii for...
November 2009
1 post
aNobii (the Book)
We are excited to announce the launch of the book!
The wonderful journalist and blogger Barbara Sgarzi is the driving force behind this project. Here’s a short interview we’ve done with her about the book (in Italian):
aN: Un libro tratto dalle recensioni su aNobii. Da dove nasce l’idea?
Ba: L’idea è partita da una editor di Rizzoli - ovviamente un’aNobiana! Secondo il suo parere...
October 2009
1 post
About librarians’ tools
In the past week, we’ve heard from many librarians about the need to improve the librarian tools.
First of all, let us express our gratitude to all the librarians for making aNobii a nicer place for everyone. You guys rock. And judging from the number of emails we received from users voicing their support for the librarians, we are not the only ones who think so!
Let us explain why some useful...
July 2009
1 post
Annoucing a rather special book
For the past 2 months, some of us been busy planning a secret project. We are now excited to announce that we are our partnering with Rcs to publish a book authored by aNobiians from Italy!
The idea is simple: top 1000 book reviews on the top 100 books.
In the coming weeks, our project leader Barbara Sgarzi (barbara.sgarzi@anobii.com) will begin to contact some of you to ask for permissions to...