Is making books social a good thing or a bad thing?

Is making books social a good thing or a bad thing?
As virtually every form of media from newspapers to television shows becomes more socially aware, the book remains stubbornly anti-social. Despite the rapid growth in e-books and the launch of a number of services designed to add social features to books, the act of reading is still a fairly solitary thing. Author and tech blogger Clive Thompson says he sees a future in which books become just as social as other forms of writing, with comments and conversations integrated into them or revolving around them — but is that what readers want?

April 4, 2012 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Bill Drew says:
    April 4, 2012 at 4:33 pm

    Readers are social or not social
    The book is currently socially neutral. It is readers that make the decision to be social or not. New forms of books will make it easier to be social. I get tired of the pundits that say media is social as though it operated without the reader.

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