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News & ArtsFriday, November 19, 2010
Books Autographing E-Books
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:56 PM
Authography is a service that allows authors to insert signature pages into e-books.
Authors are freed from the brick and mortar prison. Rather than trying to entice readers into tired, outmoded stores authors can visit and interact with communities of readers wherever they are. Authors sign a temporary signature page until the customer has completed the online (or in store) purchase. The retailer's online store merges the autograph page into the ebook and transmits to the customer's eReader device. The author is not restricted to a single title or publisher - all of his or her books can be chosen from a selection menu at the customer's request for autographing.
I like how they shit all over "tired, outmoded" bookstores and then add a parenthetical addendum that their service would work great with stores. That said, I expect there is a solution to the problem of autographing e-books, and I think that solution will look something like this, a separate page that is slipped into the e-book somehow.
(Via Tele-Read.)
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Is it just me, or is this the most ridiculous concept ever? Autographing digital files? Why not sign my mp3's while you're at it...
3
This is the stupidest fucking idea i've ever heard.
Hard copy books will start diminishing, but in the long run I don't think they are going anywhere, but I imagine it will start to look more like this:
People only buy hard copies of books they really like and get teh author to sign. Then they read their digital copy and keep the book on the shelf in mint condition.
Hard copy books will start diminishing, but in the long run I don't think they are going anywhere, but I imagine it will start to look more like this:
People only buy hard copies of books they really like and get teh author to sign. Then they read their digital copy and keep the book on the shelf in mint condition.
4
I never even thought of this! Thanks to the interwebs my free copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is now an autographed copy!
1) Download free ePub
2) Insert image of autograph
3) Profit?
1) Download free ePub
2) Insert image of autograph
3) Profit?
5
I never even thought of this! Thanks to the interwebs my free copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is now an autographed copy!
1) Download free ePub
2) Insert image of autograph
3) Profit?
1) Download free ePub
2) Insert image of autograph
3) Profit?
7
The author is not restricted to a single title or publisher - all of his or her books can be chosen from a selection menu at the customer's request for autographing.
At that point, why not just sign it before Amazon sells it?
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