Sentence examples for virtual shelves from inspiring English sources

This celebration of actual (as opposed to virtual) shelves and spines starts today.

Thank goodness virtual shelves are sturdy: his holds one hundred and forty-three books.

This is typical of the so-called "long-tail" phenomenon: books that once lacked a market can be shifted at any time off Amazon's virtual shelves.

It is only when browsing the actual – not virtual – shelves of the world's biggest retailer that the surreal multiplicity of its wares becomes clear.

Apple's iBookstore, for instance, still has a far less impressive online selection than Amazon's emporium, which boasts over 600,000 titles on its virtual shelves.

Some 425m people now use its iTunes online store, whose virtual shelves are packed to the gills with music and other digital content.

The first is the more obvious: Amazon's virtual shelves claim to hold 2.5m books, ten times as many as even the biggest bookshops in the physical world.

If almost all of my friends have stopped adding books to their virtual shelves, does that mean my friends have stopped reading?

(I'd link to all of this, but the site often makes you log in first before seeing items on the virtual shelves).

I have no evidence beyond what I see as I browse through the retailer's virtual shelves, where I have routinely been noticing books selling for the same price they cost in the rest of the world.

Perhaps predictably, polo shirts and pinafores have been flying off the website's virtual shelves throughout the summer, in a bonanza that has seen schoolwear sales account for three out of five of its top-selling lines.