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Originally Posted by ebookie
I am struck by how cool this could be if it were done legitimately. What I mean is if you came up with a way to pay an author for his or her reportage and a way to select what you were willing to pay for the article you could actually create something really useful out of this. Rather than try to steal the content out from under some web site which is using it to generate advertising revenue which pays the salaries of the people who are running the site in the first place.
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--Chuck
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You have a point or two there, however, I cannot fully agree with what you say about "stealing". That assertion is not true, for newsagencies put these RSS feeds online as a free (as in beer) service, and if they didn't want people to read them free of charge, they should stop publishing it, or charge it.
And as for ads coming along, first, an RSS feed does not transport any adds, secondly the ads will actually read if they are on the page... admittedly only by the tool, but so what? When it comes to counting hits, it doesn't matter and the content provider still can tell the advertiser how many hits he got on this particular page. And thirdly, depending on where and how the ad is placed, it will still appear on the ebook.
Tommy