Announced today, Amazon is testing a new feature of the Kindle that allows readers to directly ask questions to the author of a book. Borrowing a page from Twitter, the program is called @author and allows readers to post questions from the Kindle. Readers can also visit the Amazon Author page to post questions on the Web. Questions are published on the Amazon Author page and readers interested in the author can read all questions. Using the 5-way controller, the reader can highlight a specific passage on the page and ask a question by typing ‘@author’ previous to the query. Readers are limited to 100 characters as Amazon is tweeting the question to the author.
Since the high-tech program is currently in beta form, there are only twelve authors participating in the process. Popular
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