Social reading, Lindoc synchronizes comments of users who have the same textbook /Venture Now

iPad app, Lindoc is different from other social reading applications in the way that it focuses on education aiming at social learning platform. Lindoc allows readers to buy and view e-textbook and share knowledge of them.

If readers using the application adds comments in a section that they have difficulty to understand, the comments are to be shared with other readers who have the same textbook. Also it has Twitter-like follow features letting readers follow users who add beneficial comments.

It will start trial service from October at Komaba campus of University of Tokyo.

Venture Now 7/15/2011

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• There increase ebook related services and devices, but still no very successful cases so far. It is an interesting service to focus on textbooks which has more necessity to share comments than usual books.