Saw this book at the checkout of a grocery store today. Its title translates to: The Web Address Book for Germany 2010: The 6000 Most Important German Internet Addresses. I was amused, so I went home and looked it up. The book sells for €16.90, but the website itself is chock-full of “surfing tips” with most of their recommended links being commercial websites. So not only are they tricking old people into paying $25 for a book that lost any redeeming usefulness about a decade ago, but they’re likely also making some money selling the authoritative title of “most important German website” X 6000. Good on them, i guess; but I’m afraid this is a dying business model.

Saw this book at the checkout of a grocery store today. Its title translates to: The Web Address Book for Germany 2010: The 6000 Most Important German Internet Addresses. I was amused, so I went home and looked it up. The book sells for €16.90, but the website itself is chock-full of “surfing tips” with most of their recommended links being commercial websites. So not only are they tricking old people into paying $25 for a book that lost any redeeming usefulness about a decade ago, but they’re likely also making some money selling the authoritative title of “most important German website” X 6000. Good on them, i guess; but I’m afraid this is a dying business model.