Tuesday, October 05, 2010

New Fun With Spam



I was horrified that you could download my books from servers until Tom pointed out that these aren't even the books. These are what he called "dynamic PDF spam."

I'm impressed. What a stupid way to get people to your...whatever you're trying to get them to. To sign up for your server? I must be missing something.

2 comments:

Ed Ward said...

No, if you want downloadable files of your books, you have to go to sribd.com, which may well have them. I know a novelist who sold 35,000 copies of her last book, which made it a bit of a judgement call by her publisher as to whether to do her next one (they chose to do so). She went to scribd and found that her last book had been downloaded 55,000 times! She was, let us say, not pleased.

Ax said...

Is it some new form of MFA (Made For Adsense) badness? I too am confused ... and also to lazy to click through...