[LINK] What If Every eBook Was Its Own Social Network?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:28 AM 22/05/2011, Kim Holburn wrote:
[snip a lot of good stuff]
> > I get on my ereader, and ask it to call me when the new material 
> is uploaded. I also ask for updates when people respond to my forum 
> comments, or vote on my review.

And that is why I prefer a functional computing device (laptop, 
desktop, netbook, tablet) to a simple minded ereader. Those 
capabilities are there and are being used, but the applications just 
aren't seamlessly connected yet. I can go to Konrath's blog and do 
some of that, or go to Amazon or set up a forum myself and invite 
people from those other two areas to engage in the discussion in the 
forum I created. I'm sure there are fan based forums already for some 
of the big names.

I got the sense of this connectedness thing when I wrote to Lawrence 
Lessig to ask a question and he sent me an ecopy of his book instead.

Jan



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