http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/22/brain-cuttings-meets-the-woes-of-the-ebook-business/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/22/brain-cuttings-meets-the-woes-of-the-ebook-business/#comment-17677 Bob Carlson Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:32:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5572#comment-17677 It strikes me as bizarre. When I pull up my copy of Brain Cuttings on my Kindle and go to Book Description via the menu, it pulls up the entry on the Amazon site, and where there is usually the option for buying the book (i.e. the Kindle description is nothing more than access to the info typically displayed on the Amazon site), there is just the statement "Not currently available." At the bottom of the page, there is the usual "Customers who bought this book also bought:." The line below that is: "A Planet of Viruses, by Carl Zimmer See more." Clicking on the latter brings up four pages with six entries apiece of books also purchased by people who bought Brain Cuttings. There are three Zimmer books on the first screen, and at the top of the next screen is The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran. In my case, I believe the latter book was the very next purchase after I had read Brain Cuttings, and one might suppose that Amazon would have recorded that bit of info as an indicator that Brain Cuttings was getting customers to look for more works about the brain. In fact, right after Brain Cuttings is listed Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W. Deacon and on the next page is Shermer's Believing Brain. I didn't buy the latter two, but, obviously, someone did. It strikes me as bizarre. When I pull up my copy of Brain Cuttings on my Kindle and go to Book Description via the menu, it pulls up the entry on the Amazon site, and where there is usually the option for buying the book (i.e. the Kindle description is nothing more than access to the info typically displayed on the Amazon site), there is just the statement “Not currently available.” At the bottom of the page, there is the usual “Customers who bought this book also bought:.” The line below that is: “A Planet of Viruses, by Carl Zimmer See more.” Clicking on the latter brings up four pages with six entries apiece of books also purchased by people who bought Brain Cuttings. There are three Zimmer books on the first screen, and at the top of the next screen is The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran. In my case, I believe the latter book was the very next purchase after I had read Brain Cuttings, and one might suppose that Amazon would have recorded that bit of info as an indicator that Brain Cuttings was getting customers to look for more works about the brain. In fact, right after Brain Cuttings is listed Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W. Deacon and on the next page is Shermer’s Believing Brain. I didn’t buy the latter two, but, obviously, someone did.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/22/brain-cuttings-meets-the-woes-of-the-ebook-business/#comment-17676 A’Glitter in the Net: Bees, E-Books, Abandoned Children, Reclaimed Phone Booths | photoeditordownload.com Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:09:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5572#comment-17676 [...] stranger: Carl Zimmer tells how his dual successful e-books, Brain Cuttings and Brain Cuttings II, got pulled from Amazon since of a brawl between Amazon and a e-book’s [...] [...] stranger: Carl Zimmer tells how his dual successful e-books, Brain Cuttings and Brain Cuttings II, got pulled from Amazon since of a brawl between Amazon and a e-book’s [...]

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/22/brain-cuttings-meets-the-woes-of-the-ebook-business/#comment-17675 Ian Wood Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:26:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5572#comment-17675 Self-publish, Dude and the hell with the establishment. They don't own us any more. Self-publish, Dude and the hell with the establishment. They don’t own us any more.

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