Am I missing the brilliant business plan here or is selling book reviews to book buyers on Amazon as pointless as it appears?
Tag Archive: idiocy
Amazon Throws a Hissy Fit and Realizes No One Cares
Amazon could one day be obsolete and Bezos knows it–so he came up with the Kindle to lock people into buying ebooks from a middleman.
Enhance This, Publishers
Don’t add crap to my ebooks, call it gold, and expect me to pay more.
Interesting links for July 30, 2009
Round up of book-related hacks at LifeHacker; Kindle coming to the UK; Book art; B&N DRM on public domain ebooks; Finding used books sales online (US).
Interesting Links for July 23, 2009
Publisher “unsells” Orwell ebooks, sketchy book marketing, Vanity Fair edits Palin speech, Facebook violates Canadian law, More on book covers.
Amazon accused of manipulating site content (again): Searches and rankings this time
#amazonfail Amazon appears to have removed certain books (fiction & nonfiction) from its searches & sales rankings to “protect” you. And why I care.
Site Is Under Repair
I am recovering from the theme which ATE my entire site, locked me out of my theme and plugins folder and generally forced me to spend 5 hours trying to recover. I am keeping the default theme and sidebar for a few days while I deal with other deadlines. I will be changing the theme…
Selling Library Books Is a No-No
Just in case you were unclear on this point: When you borrow books, etc., from a library, they’re not yours to sell. Unbelievable. Someone please send this man a dictionary and highlight the word borrow. Feel free to highlight any other words that you feel he might want to learn the definition of. I know…
