Qu'est-ce (qui) est brochureware - définition

The incredibly useful advertising material that accompanies digital media, often found on interactive Audio CDs, Iomega ZipDisks, and certain not-quite-so-freeware programs.
I installed BearShare, and God, it also put on like a ton of brochureware that won't stop bothering me.

<marketing, jargon> Planned but non-existent product like vaporware, but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to an existing product of the competition's. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, web site revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years. [Jargon File] (2001-05-10)

Brochureware was a term used to describe "simply listing products and services on a Web site." To emphasize what's lacking, Advertising Age referred to "static brochureware" - it just stands there and "is little more than a brochure.