Social impacts the dot-com bubble had without us noticing.

[leahbobet]

Dear Author reports that Amazon has filed for a patent to insert advertising into POD and e-books. Books that included advertisements would be sold for a lower rate than books without. There are, predictably, the beginnings of outrage stirring in the comments.

What I find interesting here, though?

We have, socially, reached a point where major corporations accept implicitly that in order to get you in the same room as advertising, they have to blackmail you. And they attempt to account for that base assumption in their business plans.

It's no longer a social given that advertising is the price you pay for the intake of media anymore.

That's...pretty sweet.

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[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Since there used to be ads in print books and that was eventually phased out by the early 1980s or so, I suppose this means that we're regressing.