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Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers (for now).
Shelfari was the first social media site focused on books, and will continue to innovate as it brings together the world’s readers. Their mission is to enhance the experience of reading by connecting readers in meaningful conversations about the published word.

Josh Hug, CEO & Co-Founder of Shelfari quoted on their blog on August 25th:

It’s an exciting day here at Shelfari. The rain has stopped, the birds are chirping and the biggest news of all – we are being acquired by Amazon.com.

You can check my profile http://www.shelfari.com/krikor

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With 178,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007.

Starbucks is here, in the heart of Vienna, a city with a 300 year-old coffee tradition dating back to the invasion of the Turks, and then to ban smoking in it.

Many Viennese believe that their culture has been infected, that Viennese use their 1,900 or so coffee shops to linger and meet, smoke and drink, savor the wonders of pastries with cream and marzipan, ponder the world, write books and read free newspapers. They drink from china cups and order from a waiter, usually in a stained black dinner jacket.

In Austria, there is a coffeehouse for every 530 people, and Austrians drink 1,000 cups of coffee a year outside homes and offices. This is, quite simply, the densest coffee market in the world. One of the most competitive, too. Austrians love their coffee, they go three or four times a day to a coffeehouse to meet friends or do business.

Young people in Austria are not much different from other young people elsewhere in the world. Many view Starbucks as an alternative to the smoky cafes of their parents and prefer the self-serve to an unhurried waiter. In Vienna, the crowd is well-to-do, mostly in their 30s, a mixture of tourists and locals.

Howard Schultz is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as cief global strategist and chairman of Starbucks. Schultz was born July 19, 1953 in Brooklyn, N.Y. . He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He is the oldest child of three. He has a sister Ronnie (b. 1956) and a brother Michael (b. 1961) who live in New York. His mother lives in New Jersey and his father, whom he often speaks of in interviews, is deceased. He presently lives in Seattle with his wife and 2 children.

Schultz co-authored a book called Pour Your Heart into It that expounds on his life journey with Starbucks.