QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 22nd September 2010, 11:11am)
Looks like
SlimVirgin just discovered this scam for the first time. I thought she was a reader and participant here?
Welcome to 2009, Slim!
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that she said "her" FA article was being sold by Amazon for $49, or the fact that Amazon indeed not only does that, but says it's available too on Kindle.
For a couple of years I've pointed out that WMF could actually take the text of all the FA articles (indeed, all the articles on WP, leaving out only stubs and porn for quality not space purposes) and stick it all on one 32 GB micro-SD card. Even 64 GB, which you could put in any cellphone with a STI-MICROSD/64 port. That's GIGA, not megabytes. (No, not in the iPhone, but that's due to Apple and Jobs prejudice against plug-in anything).
So now the palpable irony. The WMF has millions which they could be using to get all print WP, or some selection of all FA articles, pics and all, on microSD for all cell phones, and even Kindle readers themselves (which now cost $150). It isn't happening. Instead, their articles are being scraped one-by-one and sold by Amazon/Kindle for thousands of times the cost. (IMG:
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I don't know how long WMF can take this, but I suspect some kind of direct deal with Kindle will be too tempting to pass up. With the profit of course going to the foundation. And then used from there for anybody's wild projects, including the usual ones that benefit Wikia in some clever and non-direct way.
But meanwhile, still no WP on micro-SDs. It's obvious, efficient, could be very cheap, and yet due to market forces, it's not going to happen soon.
Argghhhh.
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