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.

Comments

What do they say about not assuming.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey cousin, in my humble opnion, a book with advertising is less expensive than a non-ad book only due to the fact that the major corporation has paid for a spot in said book which offsets the price of the book. It has nothing to do with blackmail. The money paid to the book distributor/publisher is the same or more. What is sad, is that less people are buying books and the publisher has "sold out" it's readers by getting in bed with the advertisers. Just my two cents. BTW, the reason I am invading your private space is that I have an idea for a sci-fi novella and would love to pitch it to someone who can really write. Let me know where to send a confidential email. Brooke

Re: What do they say about not assuming.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hey!

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