Minnesota, USA - August 31, 2011 - As August comes to a close, you may be winding down with the last of your summer reading on your Kindle device; throughout the summer, you may have questioned the reasons that an author chose to portray a character the way he or she did or perhaps you even question the validity of an argument in a book. Right now Amazon is testing out a beta release known as the'@author' program, which allows readers to submit questions to the author when they have the questions -as they are reading like when they put any general comment within the text. Amazon basically uses this code as a cue to forward the message to the author's general page; basically, do not plan on writing to any deceased authors -not yet, anyways.

 

When we get caught up in books, we never want to stop for a moment to take a look online to get other people's insight or ideas on particular points of the books. Instead, we typically insert a comment into the Kindle and click 'save & share' and hope that someone within our Facebook Friend List or Twitter followers will respond to our comment or inquiry; instead of hoping and waiting, we can get the 'real' answers directly from the author. Although it cannot be immediate, at least we will not be guessing anymore. Let's face it, our friends do not know everything even when they sometimes act like they do or wish that they did.

 

The Kindle and other e-readers are opening up a new concept; they are catching on to the 'social' interaction that is sweeping nearly every bit of our lives. It needs to do this in order to 'survive' and not become a product of the 'past' like so many proclaim it will be. Years ago we could have probably predicted that these devices would gravitate towards this way. After all, electronics do not survive simply by doing their main purpose; we have more expectations so the Kindle and other devices are quickly advancing. We do not only read books or listen to audio books but we also listen to MP3's and browse the web -even if they are still in the 'experimental' stages.

If you have a question or comment about a book or a portion of a book that you want the author to review and respond, simply put @author where you would typically write comments, then click 'save & share'; from this point, Amazon will forward it to the author if he or she is 'available' in the list. Then you can eagerly await the response!

Hurray for interactive reading! The author can be with you every step of the way -literally.