While social reading is on the rise among ebook developers, especially those who see the merits in the ability to let readers interact with each other within the confines of an academic work or textbook, the limitations of the services currently on the market left more than one API creator wanting to take social reading to the next level. ReadSocial, which allows any content … [Read more...] about ReadSocial Powers with Float Mobile to Add Backend API
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Book Pulse and Real-Time Facebook Annotations to Ebooks
BookPulse granted an interview to GoodEReader while on location at the Digital Book World conference this week, detailing the method the company has created for readers to interact through ebooks on Facebook, so if a reader comments or annotates a page in a synced ebook, the comment will automatically appear on that book’s page on Facebook. Additionally, and perhaps more … [Read more...] about Book Pulse and Real-Time Facebook Annotations to Ebooks
Has Amazon’s Public Notes Gone Too Public?
Earlier this year, Amazon.com launched its own social interactive reading platform, Public Notes. As the name readily implies, users can choose to follow other Public Notes users and see their highlighted passages and notes in the virtual margins for any book that users choose to make, well, public. The entire premise of social reading was conceived as a great worldwide web … [Read more...] about Has Amazon’s Public Notes Gone Too Public?
Copia demonstrates Social Media Reading at CES 2011
Copia had one of the most elaborate booths at CES in the main hall that advocated their new social reading platform for Android, Apple, Windows Tablets, Windows Phone 7 and others! The main premise of the service is to combine social reading along with purchasing ebooks, without being locked into a specific device such as the Kindle. The Copia platform allows people to share … [Read more...] about Copia demonstrates Social Media Reading at CES 2011