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From the Good E-Reader Blog:

ReadSocial, which allows any content creator to add a back channel to a piece of content, is a stream of content or discussion that happens away from the main form of content, such as the ability to make annotations available as a side bar. ReadSocial partnered with Float Mobile Learning to develop the API.

“What we’ve done is we’ve taken their web API which allows any HTML page or PDF viewed on a computer and we’ve made it available on any iOS device. It’s optimized for the iPad because more reading happens there,” said Chad Udell of Float Mobile in an interview with GoodeReader. “If you have within a web browser PDF reader for iOS or an ePub reader for iOS, we can allow the discussion within the API. But if you’re a publisher, especially of things like weekly or monthly periodical or of longer content like ebooks, you can allow your book to have a back channel.”

The content that any reader can leave within the book can be text or image, URLs, and they’re soon incorporating audio and video. That information would become a piece of ReadSocial content inside the book.

“It speaks to the fact that reading has always been a social activity in how readers talk to each other about the books they’re reading. So far, none of the devices we use for digital reading have strengthened the concept of social interaction with books. This brings reading into an open format. If you look at the content that has been tagged via ReadSocial in your browser or ereader app, you see the continuity of discussion that is very unique.”

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