Monday, August 20, 2012

How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy

More on the unexpected perils of self-publishing:
…a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it. A book that was never actually written, much less printed and read.
The weird thing about all this frenzied bot activity is that in the end, it doesn't seem to have affected the author's profit margin.

How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy

Also check out this absurdity: Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

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