14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that spam really is finding its way onto every possible corner of the IT industry, as even a certain e-reader from Amazon seems to have fallen victim to the phenomenon now that the Kindle Direct Publishing service is up and running.
While Amazon selling those portable items known as e-readers is all well and good, they don't really serve any sort of purpose without digital content.
So far, quite a few books, newspapers and other publications have been digitized, but this still leaves quite a lot of potential content up in the air.
Last year, 316,000 traditional books were published, while 2.8 million non-traditional books were released in the same period.
While this spells the doom of actual book stores, the real problem lies with how many of the e-books being published through the aforementioned service are made using Private Label Rights (PLR).
Amazon created the Kindle Direct Publishing service, whose purpose is to allow aspiring authors to easily self-publish their own work, maybe even gain profits from it.
Unfortunately, like all things, the service has potential to be misused, and this is exactly what is happening at the moment.
Basically, those that try to reap money from them take cheap online content and then convert it into e-book form, most of them selling for 99 cents a piece.
While this is already serious enough, there is even a DVD boxset which lets one publish 10 to 20 titles each day without even having to write a single word.
Things went as far as an author getting his entire work republished under names of someone else, leading to the need for quick solutions.
Right now, Amazon is trying to begin adding social dimension to the service, allowing users the option of recommending quality e-books to all others. There is also mention of starting to curate the submissions, although the third option, charging users for each upload to the Kindle publishing system, could be the most effective.