David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agoSpines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AIpivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up118
arrow-up118external-linkSpines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AIpivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days ago Spines’ pitch is heavy on resentment-based marketing: “… you will receive the feedback you so long for from the publishing world: a personal touch.” holy shit. I learned a new term today (resentment-based marketing) and I’m fascinated by how this could possibly work
minus-squareswlabr@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIIRC elvis’s manager sold “i hate elvis” merch. It’s a long and storied industry
minus-squareArturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄@geekdom.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days ago@self @dgerard Their selling point being a “personal touch” from a *not-person* is too ironic for this reality.
minus-squarecerement@social.targaryen.houselinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days ago@self @dgerard all the right-wingers purchasing “woke” products just so they can film themselves driving over them, burning them, destroying them
minus-squareMadeleine Morris@mstdn.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days ago@self @dgerard I am fascinated by the idea of burning my own book out of spite.
holy shit. I learned a new term today (resentment-based marketing) and I’m fascinated by how this could possibly work
IIRC elvis’s manager sold “i hate elvis” merch. It’s a long and storied industry
@self @dgerard Their selling point being a “personal touch” from a *not-person* is too ironic for this reality.
@self @dgerard
all the right-wingers purchasing “woke” products just so they can film themselves driving over them, burning them, destroying them
@self @dgerard
I am fascinated by the idea of burning my own book out of spite.