Wow! OK. I'm the author of this book and I have no idea how it ended up there.<p>Here's the full product: <a href="http://copywritingforgeeks.com/" rel="nofollow">http://copywritingforgeeks.com/</a><p>I don't mind that much if ppl just share the pdf, but asking 10$/month for MY product? WTH is that ...
I visited the page, but wanted to read it as a PDF in my preferred reader.<p>It asked me to login, so I tried to login through Facebook. It's a pdf, so I am not too worried about what it might post.<p>It asked for permissions to post to access my news, and I was a bit surprised, why would scribd need to access my news? There was no explanation.<p>So I denied it that access.<p>At some point it demanded that I sign up for a paid plan that it assured me was just a $10 per month and easy to cancel. There seemed to be no other way to access that file unless I joined their paid plan. If there is such a way, it seems very non-obvious how to do it.<p>This all so I could download a pdf that it had offered to me in the beginning.<p>Now maybe it's because I am something of a Facebook newbie, or maybe their facebook app was having problems, or maybe my combination of Chrome settings and extensions broke their app somehow.<p>Regardless, it seems terrible that scribd demands access to post on my timeline, to read my news, and that I pay to login.<p>I have flagged this link as spam (sorry sr3d) and though I understand that scribd is a YCombinator alum, I hope more than ever it fails and fails hard. Scribd was and always has been an abomination.
This is fantastic. I studied rhetoric and persuasion in university for a couple years. I think copywriters should too! There are so many old theories that are relevant online. Some of them were covered here.<p>Thanks for sharing.
I highly recommend the book this is based on, Cialdini's <i>Influence</i>. It's gobsmackingly readable and memorable. And once you've read it you can just use the principles yourself.