Social reading : platforms, applications, clouds and tags / Jose-Antonio Cordon-Garcia---[at el.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Towards a new conception of books and reading;
2. Reading applications: an analysis;
3. New business models the reading in the cloud;
4. Open access eBooks;
5. Social reading platforms: diagnosis and evaluation;
6. System contents personalisation;
7. Social tagging and its applications for academic and leisure reading;
8. By way of an epilogue;

Appendix--
Bibliography--
Index.

Social Reading maps socially networked reading within the larger framework of a changing conception of books and reading.