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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Magazines have always been ad supported. Novels have not - notwithstanding the brief experiment with ads in paperbacks in the 60's, which apparently was not successful.
But regardless of the history, people will not accept ads in novels that interrupt their reading experience. They haven't historically, and I see no reason to assume that they will now.
I also don't think that there is a way to significantly defray the expenses of a book with advertising unless you use a *lot* of ads. Magazines have hundreds of ads in them, for example. I don't think a 4c discount on a book is going to encourage anyone to buy the one with ads, and I don't think that anyone will buy a book with dozens or 100+ ads.
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You make good points. However, novels are'nt the only form of ebook.Readers may be more amenable to ads with other types of books.
The key is whether it will adversely affect reading experience. As was mentioned above, one approach would be to put LINKS to ads, instead of actual ads in the ebook. That would be unobstrusive, and you could put in a lot of links.
Again, if this was easy to implement, it would have been done already. I think we will see some experimentation with ads soon.