10-13-2014, 09:47 AM | #1 | |
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WSJ: Your E-Book Is Reading You
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...90950051438304
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10-13-2014, 10:06 AM | #2 |
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That article is over two years old.
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10-13-2014, 10:11 AM | #3 |
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Yea and it still bugs me and is one of the prime reasons I fee my books then use a third party reader application. Preferably open source reader application because they are less likely to pull these kinds of things.
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10-13-2014, 10:18 AM | #4 |
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Ummm how else can they synchronize across platforms? I have multiple devices and it really helps to pick up where I left off with the book on the last device. The customer does gain a tangible benefit.
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10-13-2014, 10:31 AM | #5 | |
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The kind of meta-data vaccuming and page by page tracking ADE 4 has been doing in not in any way necessary. It is totally unwarranted intrusion. Last edited by fjtorres; 10-13-2014 at 10:35 AM. |
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10-13-2014, 10:47 AM | #6 |
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I don't use book apps, all my reading is done on the Kindle, and as I sideload all my books from Calibre after purchase, I never connect the Kindle to the web... Amazon are going to have a hard time knowing much
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10-13-2014, 11:02 AM | #7 |
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10-13-2014, 12:17 PM | #9 | |
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What they are looking for is general trends. If a certain percentage of readers stop reading a given book before half-way through, or if many people skip certain chapters, or if a large number read the book at one sitting ... that's the sort of useful data that they are going to be interested in. (How they actually use that data is another question.) Mike |
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10-13-2014, 12:51 PM | #10 |
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They use it to identify books worth promoting and authors worth offering contracts to. And individualized data is useless there.
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What bugs me is they don't give me this data. I want to see my reading metrics. That'd be fun.
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