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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Before there was an Internet, books had a couple of pages at the back of the book. One would be an order form for more books by the same author, and the other would be an order form for similar books by different authors. We tore out the pages and mailed them in with paper checks, and in 3 or 4 weeks, the books arrived.
It was a way to find new writers and books. That would certainly be user friendly advertising to put in ebooks, IMO.
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Ah but they were at the end of the book and didn't bother you at all. I personally find the ebooks I've downloaded from Feedbooks to be good, at the end of the book there is a list and a blurb of a few similar books you might be interested in reading. To me that works very well. Its there if you want it, but doesn't get in the way.
When I hear about advertising in ebooks for some reason I get the feeling that you'll buy an ebook and every 8 pages or so an ad for incontinence pads or discount voucher for some store will appear interrupting your reading (much like TV ads, to this day I still detest a TV show being broken up to feed us advertising, even get it on payTV).
I think people should be more worried about advertising in free apps for tablet PCs (like the iPad and Android tablets) than ebooks. A tablet PC can display an ad and the user can click and follow the ad to an official website, simple. Ereaders would require the user to go out of their way and follow up the ad (very few have effective web browsers or internet connectivity), kind of removes all impulses the user might experience.