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Originally Posted by toronado
You may not find the current ads on the Kindle intrusive. And if so, that just means that Amazon has done a good job of calculating exactly how far they can go with this at the present time. But I think this is just opening a door to further expansion of advertising in the future as people get used to it and consider it normal.
I find any and all ads intrusive. We already live with more and more intrusive advertising in the culture. And it will continue to increase as long as people accept it, for example, in exchange for a discount on a product.
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon was making more money from the KSO versions than the no-ad versions in spite of higher price of the no-ad versions.
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i'm of the mind that advertising only works if you're easily influenced by advertising. i could watch commercials all day long and not buy the advertised products.
i'm not going to sweat a little ad bar, its easy to ignore. if it were to go further than that (i.e. ads in the middle of the book) i think there would be a massive massive backlash from everyone. having something that i'm not going to pay attention to anyway in exchange for saving $$$ is a fair trade to me.