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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:04 pm Post subject: Amazon Adds Facebook, Twitter Feature to Kindle |
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Amazon.com announces that an upcoming software update will allow Kindle users to share passages from ebooks via Facebook and Twitter. Along with other features such as the ability to display text passages that the Kindle community finds most interesting, the social networking aspects of the update suggest that Amazon.com is looking for ways to make its bestselling e-reader more than just a simple display device, so that it can better compete against not only other e-readers such as Barnes & Noble's Nook, but also Apple's iPad tablet PC.
Amazon.com plans to release a software update for its Kindle and Kindle DX e-readers, termed Version 2.5, in late May. Included will be tweaks to the devices' user interface, and a social networking aspect that draws on Twitter and Facebook.
In a post on its Website, Amazon.com said the update would be pushed "to a limited group of Kindle users" before the broader rollout.
Additions to the software include Collections, a feature that organizes books or documents into specific categories, Popular Highlights, which displays passages in the reader's current book that the Kindle community finds most interesting, two new larger font sizes, sharper fonts and password-protection capability. Other enhancements include the ability to zoom into, and pan around, PDF documents.
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