Amazon rolled out its new large-screen Kindle DX just a few weeks ago. So what's next for Kindle development? Amazon hasn't said much about its future plans for the electronic reader, but a slew of trademark and patent filings from the company provide some intriguing hints. The latest? Amazon just filed for a trademark that indicates it's positioning Kindle as a social networking platform.
Amazon's June 26 trademark application for the word mark "Kindle" covers:
Online social networking services; providing a website for the purposes of social networking; providing online computer databases and online searchable databases in the field of social networking; providing information in the field of social networking.
Combine that with Amazon's recent patents for inserting advertisements into e-books, and for an electronic pen that finds the digital version of printed text, and you have a very interesting set of possibilities.
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