Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Otis Yeager Chandler

Seth Gershom Goldstein

Peter Thomas Killalea

Brian Mitchell Percival

Brian David Rosenblat

Jessica Kathleen Quinn Donaghy

Andrew Olcott

Walter Manching Tseng

Jeffrey Craig Kunins

Ashish Singh

Robert Wayne Roth

Wainwright Gregory Siady Yu

Eric Michael Franklin

Kartik Swaminadan Santhanakrishnan

Manigandan Natarajan

Jeffrey Paul Helbling

Shanmugarasa Muhunthan

Arjun Subramanian

Jay Prashant Subhash

Techniques for providing notifications to user devices for the purpose of re-engaging users in content items they are consuming, such as electronic books, movies, videos, and the like. For instance, the techniques may calculate a frequency at which a user reads an electronic book. If the user does not request to read this electronic book for an abnormal amount of time, the techniques may provide a notification encouraging the user to again read the electronic book.

Content-item notifications

A metadata item may be generated that includes metadata content corresponding to a selected portion of digital content stored on a first device, the metadata item may be associated with a first user profile, and the metadata item may be distributed to a second user device storing the digital content such that the metadata item can be accessed via a second user profile and rendered on the second user device in association with the digital content. In this manner, metadata content corresponding to digital content may be shared across user profiles that access the digital content. In addition, a collaborative content item may be generated that includes collaborative content associated with a word or phrase in digital content and that is editable by multiple user profiles.

Generation and distribution of collaborative content associated with digital content

Techniques for facilitating collaborative consumption of content items, such as electronic books, movies, videos, songs, and the like. Multiple users may consume a content item over a substantially common period of time, such as over a day, week, month, etc. Each user may utilize one or more electronic devices (e.g., electronic book reader devices, tablet devices, laptop computers, etc.) to consume the item, and each user may share his or her thoughts and may otherwise provide progress updates to the other users over the period of time.

Consuming content items collaboratively

Distribution of user-generated annotations associated with digital content

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Otis Yeager Chandler