I'd pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If books really do matter in the world, feels like we'd benefit from a lot more reading technology. Getting books onto the screen was a good *first* step.
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Not sure. At macro level, though, I think it’s so hard for companies that didn’t begin as social networks to do social well. It requires a zealotry that manifests in patience and multiple trials (a deep faith that I see a lot in crypto true believers right now)
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Think the way to pique Amazon’s interest is by proving incremental book sales. If, while reading a book, I highlight a passage and get recommended a related concept from another book, and it says
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This is a small thing (and relates more to hardware competition than anything) but i can’t believe I can’t write in the margins of my Kindle with my Apple Pencil.
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There's been a ton of great work in this vein done on the Kindle UX team over the years... problem was always getting director-level+ buy-in as the break-neck pace of working on tablestakes tablet features always took precedent
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Around 2008, I decided I wanted to work on the Kindle to improve notes, highlights, sharing, metrics, etc. I went ballsy and sent them a pitch wireframe of a redesigned homepage. No dice. I still want everything on that page. Sounds like you do too.
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Would you be up for sharing the wireframes and designs publicly?
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When I annotate something on Kindle I see my comments (although private) on http://goodreads.com . From there it shouldn't be a big (technical) problem to share and discuss book snippets.
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Please explain why simply reading a book is so hard....i don't get it...
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Medium does it to some extent by highlighting most selected portions of text.
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