WATCH: Print Books Become Facebook Applications
Leya Book Publishing is turning e-books into Facebook profiles, status updates and wall posts.
Smartphones, videogames, cable TV and the Internet may be keeping young people from developing a fondness for reading books. But a publisher from Portugal has a solution: turn and e-book into a series of Facebook profiles, status updates and wall posts.
That’s what Leya Publishing Company’s F-book does. The application creates Facebook profiles for each character, who invites readers to become friends and read updates. Dialogues between characters become wall-to-wall exchanges.
Call me biased by a serious love of books but this offering sounds pretty gimmicky — and I wonder whether this format would be easy to follow.
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