Most press releases are awful, but the one on this project is highly entertaining, and worth reading in full:
The Internet slang of YouTube comments is treated as fresh dialogue, and sold through Amazon.com in the form of massive, self-generated e-books. In an auto-cannibalistic model, user generated content is sold back to the users themselves, parasitically exploiting both corporations: YouTube and Amazon.
I emailed the provocateurs behind this, Luc Gross aka "paradoxical print publisher' TRAUMAWIEN and Bernhard Bauch, a "media artist and programmer living in Berlin," to find out how they did it.
Q: How hard was it to "hack" the kindle ebook store?
A: "Actually there is no real "hack" or involved in the whole thing.
"Getting all bytes, words, pieces and parameters together to compile books and tie robots on the same machinery, that sequential upload book to the kindle store is kind of a "hack".
"But there was not need to break into Youtube or Amazon to get content or upload a massive amount of books.
"The KINDLE'VOKE machinary is based on three major parts. (1) The "Sucker" a clever suction apparatus to gather comments from Youtube. (2) the "Ghost Writer's Table": the book compiler that handles generation of books content, book covers, authors at the same time. (3) The "Amazon Kindle Scatter Bots" that make the brand new digital literature available for all of us.
As an artistic provocation, the project is designed to raise all kinds questions, including:
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