How could a book app use location? Here’s a case study.

Cynthia’s 9 year-old son Brendan is a big fan of the Wimpy Kid book series. Since Brendan is home-schooled, Cynthia is constantly looking for ways to expand his social circle. She opens her Kindle app where she has the entire Wimpy Kid Series tagged as favorites. She pulls up a map view in the app to see the location of other fans of the series in her area and sees there are quite a few. In fact, the latest book has been favorited so many times that it is listed among the top 3 most popular books for his age group in the state of Florida where they live. Cynthia posts the book to her Twitter page and Tweets the desire to start a book club for other kids in their city. She knows it’s only a matter of time before Brendan will be meeting other kids his own age and expanding his reading interests in the process.

Local Faves Features for Book Apps

• See map of where your favorite books have been read around you
• See which books are the most popular in your area
• Check-in to a location via the book you’re currently reading
• Connect with other users in your area with similar book interests
• Tag books for future reading and view other users ‘faves lists’ for recommendations
• See the most popular books in Boston vs. L.A.
• Tag your favorite books and post them to your Facebook & Twitter