Keep Your Social Networking Out Of My Book

These days there's something extra revitalizing about cracking open a book. I don't just mean in a strictly geektastic, hooray–for–reading kind of way. I mean, it's actually mentally refreshing. For those of us who live online, there's no better way to wrap up a hyper–connected day of status updates, tweets, and pageview–thirsty headlines than by diving into a single, focused, long–form story or work of nonfiction. Well, it'll be nice as long as it lasts, anyway. If it wasn't already obvious, the era of social books is right on the horizon. One of the companies leading us there is Readmill, the purveyor of a social reading app that takes Amazon's crowdsourced highlighting concept to the next level and makes e–books more interactive than ever. Not to be outdone by some scrappy startup, Amazon will integrate the next version of its Kindle Paperwhite e–reader with Goodreads, the book–centric social network Amazon acquired in late March. Neither of these new social reading environments amounts to a full–blown, Facebook–inside–your–book type of experience. But the line between social networks and books is only now beginning to blur. Prepare to get even more distracted. As my colleague Michael Grothaus––himself a paper–loving e–reader holdout––wrote recently, "e–books are going to explode beyond just containing stories, becoming niche social networks where we discuss our favorite passages with other readers and even authors and publishers buy our data to make more informed... Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

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Keep Your Social Networking Out Of My Book

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