May 28, 2011 Comments
eBook Joins Web’s Entertainment Operating System
Big players are moving fast to influence digital entertainment stack according to their dominant business model. Looks like eBook is a new media format to join that stack. Michael Wolf has a good post on how Facebook is building missing components to build social entertainment operating system.
eBook is a new entrant in this stack and it’s getting lot of attention lately. It’s fair to assume that Facebook will have strong eBook strategy at some point of time. In post-iPad world, social eBook experience won’t just be restricted to GoodReads type of book recommendation and review service. It will go beyond that. Facebook will aim to facilitate actual reading and buying eBooks. How and when is something to be seen.
