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Originally Posted by NewPhin
I didn't read the article, but I assume it's about the social aspect of seeing other people's reading and getting reading choices from that. While I think that will be missed, I think the marketing/viral power of seeing someone with a book power pales in comparison to the potential of meshing of social media with book publishing.
There are already tons of sites like goodreads and such out there. These are all linked into facebook and twitter. As (if) e-readers become more and more widespread and more interactive, I imagine that the e-readers will integrate this technology and allow virtual communities to build up around people reading certain books at that time in their e-readers.
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Oh, I agree. Amazon's "users also bought this" can hook me for hours.