Amazon patents social e-book extras

Looks like it’s that time again. Amazon’s just gotten another patent. Wired describes it as covering “’DVD extras’ for e-books,” though it seems a little more focused than that. Nate Hoffelder points out that Amazon has actually implemented some parts of it already. The patent covers customizing e-books with “supplemental content items” either provided with [...]

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