RE: [projectvrm] VRM For authors - was "An author's personal IP s tore in the cloud "

["Crosbie Fitch" < >]

> From: Don Marti
> I want to spend a good-sized chunk of our corporate
> marketing budget on placing one of our products in the
> next book in the "Laundry" series by Charles Stross.
> If you see him, ask him to have his agent call me.

Yes, that's another no-much-of-a-business model: selling your readers
eyeballs (because a VRM facility that let's them pay you for your work with
their money instead of their eyeballs has not yet been developed).

As VRM ascends, so selling-eyeballs descends.

Why degrade your product if you are paid in full for it by your customers?

And if customers are given the VRM facilty to communicate with vendors,
vendors correspondingly need less of a facility to broadcast their message
to everyone (in the hopes of reaching a fraction of their potential
customers).