It's iPorn Jim - and just as we know it

Wednesday, September 29. 2010

It's iPorn Jim - and just as we know it

Doesn't it gladden your heart when trusted things come through? Yes, it would seem that Porn and e-readers were made for each other - Slate:

As I write this, the most downloaded item for Amazon's Kindle is a novel by Jenna Bayley-Burke called Compromising Positions. Here is part of the plot description: "David Strong knows how to do a lot of things—run an international fitness company, finesse stock portfolios and stay out of emotional entanglements. That is, until he gets tangled up with Sophie Delfino and her Sensational Sex workout....

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You won't find Compromising Positions anywhere on the New York Times or USA Today best-seller list. So how did it become the No. 1 item on the Kindle, slightly outpacing Jonathan Franzen's Freedom? Price. To buy the paperback on Amazon costs $10.20, plus shipping and handling. The Kindle version? $0.00, which includes instant delivery. Christina Brashear, publisher of Samhain Books, explains that she usually makes one title in a series available as a freebie for two weeks, betting that some readers will pay for future titles. Based on the performance of August freebie Venus in Blue Jeans, it's reasonable to assume that some 35,000 people will download Compromising Positions during its freebie run. While few would dare try Samhain's giveaway tactic with a physical book, the tactic seems to be working digitally.

Many—including the publishing industry—would not label Compromising Positions pornography, and with good reason. For decades, romance and women's fiction novels have featured fairly explicit sexual passages, which readers apparently feel comfortable with as long as they are surrounded by what one Amazon commenter labeled "a tastefully written story of deep love and emotional commitment."

But you know the rest is coming (fnarr fnarr), don't you. It will be interesting to see what directions e-Readers (and by definition tablets like iPad) take as Porn starts to drive adoption of technologies in the delivery system.

A quick Flash, anyone?

Posted by Alan Patrick in Business Models at 20:23 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Flash? Not natively on anything Apple i, shurely... or do you know something we don't?

#1 Improbulus (Homepage) on 2010-10-04 08:39 (Reply)

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