Sales of my three e-books [Understanding Marx, Understanding Rawls, and The Poverty of Liberalism] are booming. At latest report, a total of fourteen had been downloaded at $9.99 a pop [I have donated my royalties to the organization that is posting the books on Amazon.] I am waiting for a call from Dancing With the Stars.
Kant's Theory of Mental Activity, always a hot item, will be available soon, followed by Moneybags Must be So Lucky. The thing about e-books, I think, is that they are immortal. It is probably more trouble for Amazon to remove a title simply because it has not sold in a decade than it is to leave it there to languish. Now if only someone could crack the problem of digitizing self-consciousness, I could be truly immortal.
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ReplyDelete"Now if only someone could crack the problem of digitizing self-consciousness, I could be truly immortal."
Maybe it's a matter of patience:
Will men and machines merge?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121108-will-men-and-machines-merge
Maybe you can get a movie deal for the Kant book--"The Thing In-Itself: In 3-D!" I'd cast Daniel Day-Lewis as the Transcendental Unity of Apperception.
ReplyDeleteAngelina Jolie could be the sensuous manifold -- something that any rational agent would want to run through and hold together in one concept.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen that many great one-liners in a row over here. Magpie is right, too -- they're working on that. It will be called an upload (the AI people stopped calling it a brain dump for PR reasons).
ReplyDeleteAh, but will I remember that I hate pistacchio ice cream after the upload?
ReplyDeleteread this one.
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ReplyDeleteCheck out this one.
http://www.amazon.com/It-Be-Just-Alright-ebook/dp/B00ATSSFMS/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1364930207&sr=1-1&keywords=It+Be+Just+Alright