My last post reminded me of something I'd been thinking about.
The kindle is already uploading lots of stats to Amazon via the cell phone connection - it's how their whole 'whispersync' technology works. That's the name for uploading statistics from one device and then using those statistics to place a bookmark when you start reading from another device - but 'digital bookmarks' don't sound like a cool selling feature.
Anyway - most of what I would want in a kindle api is the data sent from whispersync.
So meet us developers half way - let us access the data you're collecting anyway (with the user's permission of course). It won't cost you any extra access fees and won't leave you dealing with hacked kindle problems.
You're concerned about the extra cost of making that data available? I know a company that has a whole computing cloud available - maybe they could help you out.
Making developers tell you how to get synergies out of your own products - kindle fail!
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Jeff
ReplyDeletesomething you wrote about in this post (subject Kindle API) has me intrigued and is related to something I'm thinking about. Can you contact me? (thelobber at gmail dot com)
Thanks
Brent