Spam clogging Amazon’s Kindle self-publishing
Alistair Barr,
Globe, Mail,
Jun 17, 2011
Amazon opened a publish-it-yourself functionality on Kindle and it was flooded with spam. Of course it was flooded with spam. Any place you open to public input is soon flooded with spam. "Aspiring spammers can even buy a DVD box set called Autopilot Kindle Cash that claims to teach people how to publish 10 to 20 new Kindle books a day without writing a word." On the open internet, we have ways of dealing with this. But in a closed marketplace, it's a lot more difficult. "Forrester’s McQuivey said Amazon will have to craft a social-network solution to the problem. If the company can let readers see book recommendations from people they know, or people whose reviews they liked in the past, that would help them track down the content they want and avoid misleading recommendations, he explained."
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