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Originally Posted by rahlquist
This goes back to some of the same concepts I was referring too (albeit not clearly) in the thread I started last month on how the next big successful reader will have social networking built in. Pandora for books would need the same level of interaction as Pandora for music. Which means the best reader will be the one that lets you rate a book when you read it and through some type of connection to a central database builds your recommendation/taste listing.
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Which IMHO is a very very bad idea. Whats going to stop the makers of that reader to "abuse" that kind of data by planting ratings/recomendations? Or if not that, using it as a guideline for selecting what kind of author/genre they should supply?