I was just reading the thread in the Kindle section about the new social media integration feature where you can tweet and/or post to your facebook page after finishing your book. Well I suppose you can use it at anytime and often while reading the book but the link is there at the end.
Link to Kindle specific thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=124402
Here was my observation:
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I actually agree that it's likely a fun thing for the twatters and facebook users out there. I don't use either because, well I just don't get the attraction. A comedian the other night described twitter as something along the lines of twitter being a way to gossip about people and facebook as a way to stalk and spy on people. hehehehe....
But I just have the activation turned off and actually have never noticed, I'll certainly look at a few books. But it's nothing to me if it's there. But consider this, obviously this might be the first step toward ads in our ebooks. I imagine both twitter and facebook are PAYING to have this level of access. Publishers might also be ponying up some cash for the feature as well
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Does it make sense this would be a really interesting way for both publishers or at the very least for device makers to both profit and subsidize the cost of the devices, 3g and other such features?
I am the first to admit I absolutely do not understand how to use either feature in a positive fashion to promote a business. However it obviously works or both would not have gown as they have. so what do others think? Is the maybe a way to get those people who use either or both of these services to advertise books for them via the time tested viral marketing of word of mouth. I see it as a very unobtrusive compromise to active in-book ads.
And before forming an opinion consider the recent thread here on MR speculating on free Kindles by year's end:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=124173
Maybe this is part of that plan that will enable Amazon to offer the free Kindle devices to Prime account holders who also have Twitter and/or Facebook accounts?