author - "Samuel Vaknin"
which digital content can be replicated - publishers resortedto draconian copyright protection measures (euphemisticallyknown as "digital rights management"). This further alienatedthe few potential readers left. The opposite model of "viral"or "buzz" marketing (by encouraging the dissemination of freecopies of the promoted book) was only marginally moresuccessful.Moreover, e-publishing's delivery platform, the Internet, hasbeen transformed beyond recognition since March 2000.From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers -it has evolved into a territorial, commercial, corporateextension of "brick and mortar" giants, subject to governmentregulation. It is less friendly towards independent (small)publishers, the backbone of e-publishing. Increasingly, it isexpropriated by publishing and media behemoths. It is treatedas a medium for cross promotion, supply chain management, andcustomer relations management. It offers only some minorsynergies with non-cyberspa
m dare askand then answer the question we clones avoid like the plague, he doesso with relentless, laser-like precision. Read his book. Take your seatat the double-headed microscope and let Sam guide you through thedissection. Like a brain surgeon operating on himself, Sam explores andexposes the alien among us, hoping beyond hope for a respectable tumourbut finding instead each and every cell teaming with the same resistantvirus. The operation is long and tedious, and at times frightening andhard to believe. Read on. The parts exposed are as they are, despitewhat may seem hyperbolic or far-fetched. Their validity might not hithome until later, when coupled with memories of past events andexperiences.
I am, as I said, my own worst nightmare. True, the world is repletewith my contributions, and I am lots of fun to be around. And true,most contributions like mine are not the result of troubled souls. Butmany more than you might want to believe are. And if by chance you getcaught in my Web, I c
which digital content can be replicated - publishers resortedto draconian copyright protection measures (euphemisticallyknown as "digital rights management"). This further alienatedthe few potential readers left. The opposite model of "viral"or "buzz" marketing (by encouraging the dissemination of freecopies of the promoted book) was only marginally moresuccessful.Moreover, e-publishing's delivery platform, the Internet, hasbeen transformed beyond recognition since March 2000.From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers -it has evolved into a territorial, commercial, corporateextension of "brick and mortar" giants, subject to governmentregulation. It is less friendly towards independent (small)publishers, the backbone of e-publishing. Increasingly, it isexpropriated by publishing and media behemoths. It is treatedas a medium for cross promotion, supply chain management, andcustomer relations management. It offers only some minorsynergies with non-cyberspa
m dare askand then answer the question we clones avoid like the plague, he doesso with relentless, laser-like precision. Read his book. Take your seatat the double-headed microscope and let Sam guide you through thedissection. Like a brain surgeon operating on himself, Sam explores andexposes the alien among us, hoping beyond hope for a respectable tumourbut finding instead each and every cell teaming with the same resistantvirus. The operation is long and tedious, and at times frightening andhard to believe. Read on. The parts exposed are as they are, despitewhat may seem hyperbolic or far-fetched. Their validity might not hithome until later, when coupled with memories of past events andexperiences.
I am, as I said, my own worst nightmare. True, the world is repletewith my contributions, and I am lots of fun to be around. And true,most contributions like mine are not the result of troubled souls. Butmany more than you might want to believe are. And if by chance you getcaught in my Web, I c