I don’t want a 150 word quote reduced to 60 words.”?Solution:Amazon could leave the member’s existing page as it and offer a monetized COPY of the page with the links for buying a Kindle and the quoted books.
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If the permitted length is 60 words (I don’t know what it is – Amazon must ask their lawyers) then Amazon could set up the software to automatically limit the quote to 60 words (like Twitter limits input).What if a member says: “Many of my quotes are more than 60 words. Thank you.How about Amazon offering this option for each member’s highlight page?Automatically put a link to buy a kindle – member shares revenue from each Kindle sold.Automatically put a link to the book in Amazon where the quote comes from – member to share in revenue from the sale of each book.The accounting surely almost all place via the Amazon Associate program.Copyright issues? It depends on what the copyright law says about the length of lawful quotes. See their notes” similar to the way Facebook uses your friends being fans of services or businesses to promote them in advertisements. For example, it would say “Fred Wilson and so and so have read this. I see what users have read possibly being a tie-in with books sales on Amazon too. I also noticed that some authors that use a lot of social media (like Tim Ferriss) are already starting to play with public notes and profiles: …Anyway, just like delicious, I really like the idea of visiting someone’s blog and seeing the last couple things they’ve highlighted along with the reading list info pages many people have now (such as Ryan Holiday): … Now, if only Amazon would add a suggest this book or favorite book feature to help categorize and separate the rankings of the books. I just hope they don’t go the Google route and try and launch yet another social network that doesn’t play nice with the other ones. It’s an opportunity akin to delicious’ impact on bookmarking, annotating, and sharing articles and web pages, and I don’t think it’s escaped them as evidenced by their experimentation with the new notes profiles. I agree, and I think Amazon is in the process of capitalizing on this. Curation is a huge part of social media and discovery and pulling quotes from books and sharing them is a big opportunity and one that Amazon should work to unlock for us. I'm sure I'm not the only person who does a lot of highlighting and would like to share many of the highlights with the world at large.
And they should let me connect that page with Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. They should let me domain map that page so it becomes part of my social media presence.
First off, they should let me make that page public or at least let me make some of the highlights public and showcase them on a public page.
And so I suspect I'll be doing quite a bit more sharing as a result of this discovery.Īmazon has a gold mine on its hands but they aren't doing much with it right now. If you have a kindle and do a lot of highlighting, go visit that page and you'll see all of your highlights.įrom there, via the tumblr bookmarklet, it's trivial to share the quote on Tumblr. The address of my page (and yours too I imagine) is.
When you are reading on a Kindle (or a Kindle app), your highlights are sent to a private page at. I was with my friend Steven Johnson yesterday and he told me about a trick that is a game changer for me and maybe you too. It's a pain in the butt, but the desire to share the quote is such that I've been doing it. I do that with hardbacks, paperbacks, and the Kindle app on my iPad. I'm currently reading Keith Richard's biography Life and you can see the public sharing in action right now on my tumblog.įor years, when I came across a highlight I want to share, I pulled out my laptop and manually typed the quote into Tumblr. I like to share many of them publicly on the web. When I read a book, I tend to do a lot of highlighting.