Dystopia Status Level: ADS IN BOOKS 😡
My dear readers, you can leave Amazon, I promise. Even reducing Amazon usage helps, but *especially* for books. There are alternatives.
Here's how to find them:
https://susankayequinn.com/how-to-buy-sues-books-a-guide-to-retailers
@susankayequinn Literally just yesterday I learned about Terry Pratchett's German publisher inserting soup ads into The Light Fantastic back in the 90s and I thought "oh that's so gross, surely nobody will ever do that again" 😬
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/
@susankayequinn @joshsutphin don’t know, if I break some illusion here, but for a long long time, there has been product placements in literature. Way before computer era. Probably as long as there has been entertainment books on market. (Sadly only found ai generated shit when trying to get actual link to prove this 😒)
Of course, that one is pretty obvious and sloppy, unlike those Stephen Kings Bud lights, Camels, etc in his books (just one known author to mention). Every time you read an actual product name (specially, if the hero is using it), it is pretty probably paid mention.
Somehow I think product placements are different than ads because it's entirely possible the author intentionally put the product name there. I mean, I know *many* aspiring authors who loved to laden their prose with product names, and no one was paying them to do it.
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