Amazon launched the tool with great pomp: “ With a single gesture, the reader can see all the passages of a book mentioning a particular idea, characters, people, places or topics that interest them, as well as detailed from Wikipedia and Shelfari, the online community for fans of Amazon books information. “
It was all well and good, and now this technology is patented, and Amazon property, while the patent application was filed in November 2010, nearly a year before the Kindle Touch n ‘ provides. Additional content that is available on the book by this feature, and the patent granted by the U.S. government is pretty close to what we already know.
indeed offers additional content to enrich digital books that the user has purchased – but also noted that it could propose additional elements from “ trusted collaborators .” For example, at the end of reading Game of Thrones , we propose the reader on the tablet, to find a trailer for the series. And of course, a sales link just following.
And in the case of fan fiction, which is currently the big news from Amazon, which has opened a collection dedicated to the genre, the income that the firm could draw one can easily imagine. After reading Twilight completed, now we find ourselves with a dozen proposals for books written by fans that fit into the world of Bella and Edward.
course, the patent also notes from virality possible because of online comments from social networks, might appear to enrich the reading reflections more or less relevant. All remain at the discretion of the reader change preferences Kindle X-Ray, if he wishes to receive the content.
Finally, patent, covering a very wide range of possible applications, give the possibility to discover the notes from readers who agreed to share. The patent points out that “ content providers are looking for ways to improve the experience of an individual, when he reads a media .”
It would therefore consider the first digital file as a layer around which articulate other strata, simply known as “content”, but that would experience multiple variations. And the additional content is obviously refer to the interests of the consumer centers, while remaining in relationship with the ebook.
Sources Patent, The Digital Reader, Wired
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