новые практики
06:39 | 22-06-2011 | Amazon, Lifeform | No Comments
в продолжении темы о самиздате — оказывается, Kindle Store заполонил спам:
Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through Amazon’s self-publishing system each month. Many are not written in the traditional sense.
Instead, they are built using something known as Private Label Rights, or PLR content, which is information that can be bought very cheaply online then reformatted into a digital book.
а дальше все просто:
After you pay the buck and download it, this is what it looks like when you open it up. Going to the URLs referenced herein — nichebooklets.com or NicheContentKit.com — drives you into a linky, spammy trap.
или даже так:
Some of these books appear to be outright copies of other work. Earlier this year, Shayne Parkinson, a New Zealander who writes historical novels, discovered her debut “Sentence of Marriage” was on sale on Amazon under another author’s name.
впрочем, думают и над решениями — но как-то совершенно безрадостно:
Forrester’s McQuivey said Amazon will have to craft a social-network solution to the problem. If the company can let readers see book recommendations from people they know, or people whose reviews they liked in the past, that would help them track down the content they want and avoid misleading recommendations, he explained.
Daffron of Logical Expressions said Amazon should charge for uploads to the Kindle publishing system because that would remove a lot of the financial incentive for spammers.
“This is why email spam has become such a problem — it costs nothing,” she said. “If people can put out 12 versions of a single book under different titles and authors, and at different prices, even if they sell just one or two books, they can make money. They win and the loser is Amazon.”
не хотите написать еще пару-тройку книг?
via.