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

[Kim Holburn]

I forgot to mention that Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear already have a website that is very much like this concept:
http://www.mongoliad.com/

On 2011/May/22, at 12:44 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> 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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