clipped from: www.wired.com Txtr, a Germany-based e-book reader startup, is doing just that. Txtr hopes to introduce a new device at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October that will put social networking and sharing at its center.
“Txtr is to focused on the idea of connected reading,” Andreas Steinhauser, founder and CEO of Txtr told Wired.com. “You can create collections of web pages, documents or images and give friends access to it.”
E-Readers will need to sport applications that connect people through recommendations and ratings, says Epps. And that means integration with communities like Facebook and Goodreads. E-readers are also likely to evolve to provide a way to recommend and buy content for others, says Epps.