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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[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

That, I do not know. I am not a great follower of publishing uproars, alas. :/

[ckd]

Found it: "Heyne Verlag GmbH published most of Terry Pratchett’s early Discworld titles in Germany, but following an unauthorised advertisement for Maggi soup in the middle of the text of Pyramids, he moved to Goldmann Verlag, part of Bertlesmann Group, now renamed Randomhouse Verlagsgruppe."