Literary spam
There is an interesting article on ‘literary spam’ in the New York Times this morning. Spam is something we know all about at AbeBooks.com - we are deluged by the stuff. At the moment, we are being attacked by huge amounts of Viagra spam thinly disguised with Christian subject lines. Someone was offering me secondhand yachts this morning. Banks are always telling me to reconfirm my account details. And then there’s the endless stream of letters telling me that I’ve won the lottery in Australia or that their uncle was formerly the ruler of a remote African country and that they have access to $1 million but need my bank account details to get the loot.
