On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:32:52 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > > >Given what we pay for Redbooks, I can understand IBM wanting some kind > >of revenue stream and find print ads easy to ignore. > > And how long before we have "sponsored" authors - if you can't bring some > bucks, you aren't welcome (F1 drivers come to mind). > Then what - product placement in the body of the text ?. > I almost hate to contemplate the following, or even say post it. But I have a Kindle Paperwhite. It is Wifi connected to download books. And while reading, I can touch a word to bring up a definition of that word. This uses the WiFi to access an online dictionary. I fear the wave of the future will be epubs which embed dynamic ads which are fetched from the web as is done on most entertainment sites today. Get a RedBook on some technology and get pop-up ads in the viewer to contact a sales rep for company ... . Won't that be nice. Perhaps I should patent this and assign the patent to the EFF. > > If the redbooks lose their balanced technical reputation, it's all > down-hill. That'll cost IBM much more than they might make out of it. > > Shane ... > > -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
