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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
Interesting how the consensus is that no one wants their reading pleasure interrupted by ads.
But why do we then tolerate it in our television viewing and radio listening? Our whole broadcasting model is based on it.
Magazine and newspaper print publications also work this way, even when you pay for them.
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You can't compare this to reading a book.
You can casually listen to the radio, watch TV or even read a magazine article. But you cannot casually read a novel. Not if you want to truly appreciate the content.
The attention necessary to convert the abstract structure of letters into a fictional reality and
stay in this fiction as long as you are reading would be totally interrupted by advertisement (or any other means of information). edit: whoops, DMcCunney beat me on this.
I wouldn't fear eBook ads, though. Companies which are running ads are interested in one aspect in advance: circulation.
Since there aren't any circulation numbers for eBooks before copy one is sold, the price for ads would have to be so much speculative that publishers couldn't charge much for the ads. Which will make them unattractive to consider.