Amazon Kindle Gets Social Networking Skills

The Amazon Kindle was a revolutionary device when it was released. Then the iPad came along. Offering an e-reader in addition to a ton of other features that really gave buyers another device to consider. Now Amazon is trying to get their thunder back by introducing social networking updates that will enable Kindles to have both Twitter and Facebook support. Amazon has stated that these updates will allow users to share book passages on their various Twitter and Facebook profiles. Obviously, these aren’t the same kind of social networking capabilities that we’ve seen on some other devices, but this may be beneficial to some users out there who can make good use of these updates. These updates also allow users to lock their Kindle with a password and zoom PDF files. Amazon has said that these updates have already been sent to some Kindle users and is hoping for everyone to have these updates sometime in late May. Whether or not we’ll see this come to other e-reader such as the B&N Nook or the Sony E-Reader is yet to be known.

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