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The Book That Can't Wait - Eterna Cadencia

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    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Psychedelic wrote: »
    A book where the ink fades away after 2 months. Such a stupid idea it's hard to believe its real.
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    It is a gimmick but it gets your attention and that is the aim. I wouldn't describe anything that gets people reading and talking about books and authors as stupid.


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    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    I was going to buy a book yesterday, but it was printed in this old fashioned ink that can be legible for up to hundreds of years. That didn't suit me at all, so I left it behind me.
    I really wanted that new modern ink that disappears a few months after opening it. I mean, nothing ever comes up in my life that would stop me reading a book straight away. I never re-read books and wouldn't even dream of loaning a book I enjoyed to a friend.

    Coming to a TV3 documentary near you in 2013 - "The Book That Can't Wait: What Were They Thinking"


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    MagicMarker
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    They could call it "The Notepad that CAN wait".


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    Psychedelic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Psychedelic


    echo beach wrote: »
    It is a gimmick but it gets your attention and that is the aim. I wouldn't describe anything that gets people reading and talking about books and authors as stupid.
    I don't like gimmicks but this is particularly stupid. You can't re-read the book, it's a waste of paper, the authors or the publishers don't make any extra money than if a normal copy of the book was bought. I just don't see any extra benefit beyond the initial PR gained by the novelty factor of the gimmick.

    It's good to see new methods of promoting books but there are better ways to get people's attention than this idea.


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    #6
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    They could call it "The Notepad that CAN wait".

    Or "The Consumer With No Brain".
    Who in their right mind would want to allow publishers to get away with selling books with expiry dates, especially as book sales in the near future will be almost entirely digital? This a quite a dangerous precedent, IMO.
    Fortunately, I can't see any way this will catch on. There is nothing in it for the consumer after the initial magic trick has been seen. Literally nothing, for those who have been sidetracked from a book and come back to find that their purchase is now nothing but a paperweight.


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    OakeyDokey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭OakeyDokey


    Huh! I wouldn't want to read a book like that, embarrassing to say but I've have been guilty of leaving a book back and picking up 6 months later :)

    In other news.. will they be making a Kindle version :p


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