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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And is advertising free there? No premium prices to get your ads in the spots that everyone will see, the way it is in the real world?
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Well that would depend very much on what we are talking about.
What I am saying is that there is already evolving a virtual world approach to net communication, which by its nature allows (when the software evolves further) market places to form.
I would assume that means premium virtual real estate goes with big bucks. But how do you shop for books?
Do you always go to the big stores, or the stores with the best selection?
At the moment you throw out adverts into the net wind and hope to get customers. A virtual geography gives you a place to which customers come.
Small vendors end up with stalls and in lanes, big well heeled operations would have posters all over the place, and huge malls (I suppose). Books unlike many commodities have niche-tastes not well served by the everybook in the world approach, besides which in a virtual world you also have staff, with tastes and knowledge of their own.
I am not saying this solves everything, but watch out because it is just around the corner, and new opportunities will be created. The internet is still a baby with a whole lot more growing up to do.
Besides which it is going to take some years for things to flesh out.