Kindle: new social features for ebooks? - CNETFrance

Faced with competition, Amazon’s new Kindle strategy might be to add social features in ebooks. A patent will in any case in this direction.

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class=”c7″ Patenting different internet giants or the computer does not always turn up, far away, into tangible realities. But they almost always give an indication of what these companies think about the future.

class=”c7″ U.S. patent filed 10 months ago and now released for digital books customized with additional content, and could allow Amazon to add social features to its ebooks.

class=”c7″ The X-Ray feature that is on the shelves and Kindle applications, already provides additional information in some books on the characters, the author, the story etc. …

class=”c7″ This patent could help push the concept much further.

class=”c7″ The document explains that readers generally choose what they read based on the source of information, it Whether it’s a certain author or publisher, or based on recommendations from friends, experts or persons belonging to the same group of interests. The idea of ??a patent is to take account of these realities, and offer additional content and personalized reading.

could therefore see get a filtering system (for group of people, reputation expert, friends, source, etc …) to display a personalized additional content when reading Kindle ebooks.

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In this context, the GoodReads acquisition of social network by Amazon last April could take a new meaning. Such a database of reviews, tests, opinions, reading cards, reading groups around common interests is indeed the perfect solution for powering at least in part the enrichment of a new genus. Many site data could then be integrated and available in a new form, directly from ebooks.

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class=”c12″ That in any case an interesting track for the next news that Amazon thought to differentiate its offering from that of competitors.

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Florent Taillandier

Florent asks the same question every day: “Paper is he dying?” It deciphers for CNET France trends reading on screens. Tablets, e-readers, services: it passes all these issues through the prism of the dealer (repentant) e-book that was. Distinguishing feature: Basque adoption and geek who does not know

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