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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The KSO is a one-time $25 discount, leveraged against hundreds of advertisements over the life of the product. Each advertiser's cost is pennies per Kindle, or potentially, as much as few dollars per month for being on the screensaver rotation. Are you seriously claiming that advertisers will pay $5 or more PER BOOK for ads that the customer can skip past with the click of a button?
Find me these advertisers; I need startup capital for a business project.
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Except that the people the ads are presented to are motivated to seek out the ads. That's a big difference from your run-of-the mill customer. That makes it more likely that advertisers will pay for such ads. Seriously, re-read the post of every KSO owner who posted on this thread. They are not you.
Well, we have moved from "it's impossible to present ads across all platforms" to "Its impossible to present useful ads" to "OK, the subsidy from the ads CAN'T be $5 per ebook". Progress.
The point is that there is a technically possible model for ads in ebooks. Advertisers who pay for ads in the KSO will pay SOMETHING for ads in a KESO. If Amazon aggregates enough of those advertisers, then its a financially sustainable model.