With all the talk about “monetizing” social media, you have to fucking cringe at the news that Amazon has set out to correct what they considered to be a problem: that “out-of-print or rare books ... have no advertisements ... the content is fixed and, therefore, has not been adapted to modern marketing.” Oh fucking right. Why didn’t Shakespeare think about this"? The solution is spelled out in new Amazon patent applications for On-Demand Generating E-Book Content with Advertising and Incorporating Advertising in On-Demand Generated Content. Meaning that in the future your reading may look like this: If a restaurant is described on a certain page, then that page, or the following one, will be stuffed with fucking ads for restaurants, wine, food, etc. Better yet, if you’re reading the Kama Sutra, or The Story of O, you’ll get ads for massage parlors and escort services. That fucker Bezos, certainly covers all the bases!
You wanna see my "Special" book collection?
More interference .. only this time you're also paying for the content. This one is sure to win over readers ...NOT.
But then again, if Bezo's distributes books at a lower cost (or God forbid, for free),he might just get away with it!
Posted by: Paul Benjou | July 04, 2009 at 04:19 PM
The poisoned dwarf thinks "local company" BP shoulda been headed up by a briton, and complains about the Scandinavian mafia taking over... Strange thing to hear from a man who has the sole purpose of buying the shit out of the world, creating an evil empire of bad agencies... Don't shit where you eat Sir M!
http://www.ft.com/cms/8a38c684-2a26-11dc-9208-000b5df10621.html?_i_referralObject=6448605&fromSearch=n
Posted by: Badabing | July 04, 2009 at 04:50 PM