One Sci-Fi Author Wrote 29 of the Kindle's 100 Most-Highlighted Passages 239
An anonymous reader writes "Today Amazon announced that a science fiction writer has become the Kindle's all-time best-selling author. Last June Suzanne Collins, who wrote the Hunger Games trilogy, was only the fourth author to sell one million ebooks, but this month Amazon announced she'd overtaken all her competition (and she also wrote the #1 and #2 best-selling ebooks this Christmas). In fact, 29 of the 100 most-highlighted passages on the Kindle were written by Collins, including 7 of the top 10. And on a separate list of recent highlights, Collins has written 17 of the top 20 most-highlighted passages."
It's pretty interesting to go through the top-100 list and look at the passages people think are worth highlighting. Taken out of context, many of them could be patched together and re-sold as a self-help book. None are quite so eloquent as #18 in the recent highlights.
Re:How did they collect this data?! (Score:2, Informative)
How else did you think they let you see passages that other people have highlighted?
Re:How did they collect this data?! (Score:1, Informative)
What is going on here? Amazon is collecting data on what passages we highlight? What other data are they collecting? I am going to re-read their end user agreement again before I buy any more books from them.
It's stored on their cloud you dumb shit, of course their collecting it.
Re:How did they collect this data?! (Score:4, Informative)
Home -> Settings -> Popular Highlights -> Turn Off
Re:How did they collect this data?! (Score:5, Informative)
Are you trolling?
If you have a Kindle, it's dead obvious they do this.
As soon as I started reading on my Kindle, I noticed underlines on things. Amazon shows you the most popular things to highlight in the books you read, and tells you that. It's one of the features of the Kindle (I turned it off, as I found it distracting).
Re:What Else Could be Found? (Score:4, Informative)
Interestingly, the Hunger Games series is one of the few on Amazon that is significantly cheaper on the Kindle (and apps) then the paper version. And for some bizarre reason, they're the only Kindle books that I've seen that aren't plastered with typos.
Re:great book! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:great book! (Score:2, Informative)
Which was a rip-off of some Star Trek episode or Asimov story.
No new ideas in the hopper.
Re:great book! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Depressing (Score:4, Informative)
69% earned it according to a study. 6% completely inherited it, and the remainder was a mixture. That's not exactly "only a couple of wealthy families."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/most-affluent-americans-earn-their-wealth-feel-more-secure-during-economic-downturns-pnc-survey-reveals-57351597.html [prnewswire.com]