How Facebook & Google Books Can Work Together

Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Travis Alber, the co-founder of ReadSocial–a start-up connecting books and social networks. Click here to listen to the interview (MP3 link).

ReadSocial just launched Readum, an extension for the Firefox and Chrome browsers that allows readers to highlight any paragraph in a Google Book, add a note, and then share the book excerpt on Facebook. The process is outlined in the video embedded above.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview: “If your book is on the Google Books platform right now, you have a page.