April 5, 2011 at 15:03The growth of spam in the e-book market
The book publishing trust system was based on ISBN. Each book should have an ISBN; it was not given out to everyone. With the advent of the open e-book market, this order has been disrupted.
In every complex ecosystem there are parasites (c) . Sooner or later, spammers and scammers get into any open communication system, such are the laws of nature. Therefore, it is natural that the growing popularity of electronic books attracts more and more different rabble (moneymakers) here.
Money-makers from book publishing have two main types of "business." The first is garbage content generation. This can be automatic generation of content, theft of network content, for example, from Wikipedia, etc., semi-automatic aggregation of content from open sources, export of everything collected in book format and sale on Amazon and other sites (the scheme is accompanied by the creation of many fake accounts and writing favorable reviews).
Some authors have already crossed the line of 3,000 published books and continue to create, including selling texts that are in the public domain after the expiration of copyright.
In the screenshotit depicts something called the Autopilot Kindle Cash for teaching people how to generate dozens of books a day and publish them on Amazon.
The second scheme is the theft of someone else's book. Someone is engaged in scanning paper books and selling electronic versions, even without a copyright on the book itself. Here we are talking either about books that exist only in paper form and have not yet been released digitally (there are actually very many of these), or about the release of cheaper copies of existing electronic publications.
It seems that soon online stores will have to turn to search engines for advice on how to deal with content farms. Probably, here you can use text analysis systems for plagiarism, more competent reputation systems for authors and publishers.
In every complex ecosystem there are parasites (c) . Sooner or later, spammers and scammers get into any open communication system, such are the laws of nature. Therefore, it is natural that the growing popularity of electronic books attracts more and more different rabble (moneymakers) here.
Money-makers from book publishing have two main types of "business." The first is garbage content generation. This can be automatic generation of content, theft of network content, for example, from Wikipedia, etc., semi-automatic aggregation of content from open sources, export of everything collected in book format and sale on Amazon and other sites (the scheme is accompanied by the creation of many fake accounts and writing favorable reviews).
Some authors have already crossed the line of 3,000 published books and continue to create, including selling texts that are in the public domain after the expiration of copyright. In the screenshotit depicts something called the Autopilot Kindle Cash for teaching people how to generate dozens of books a day and publish them on Amazon.
The second scheme is the theft of someone else's book. Someone is engaged in scanning paper books and selling electronic versions, even without a copyright on the book itself. Here we are talking either about books that exist only in paper form and have not yet been released digitally (there are actually very many of these), or about the release of cheaper copies of existing electronic publications.
It seems that soon online stores will have to turn to search engines for advice on how to deal with content farms. Probably, here you can use text analysis systems for plagiarism, more competent reputation systems for authors and publishers.