The Evaluation of Affective Impression of Social Reading System Using Others' Comments

Abstract

With the recent expansion of the “electronic book” (hereinafter called “e-book”) market, more readers are reading books by e-books. Accordingly, readers' experiences over the network are being shared among readers of e-books. These are said to be social reading, and are drawing attention as new social media. In social reading, there are things you read together with comments on the contents. What kind of affective influence does this have on readers? In this paper we report on the results of this survey.