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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
This is another area where having the author control the content would be a good thing. Your book could be ad free. Mine could have links to the songs listed in it. Someone else could have every third word linked with huge glowing neon flashing ads every five hundred words. To each his or her own.
As long as you control your content, you can get exactly what you like.
As long as you're upfront about what's in it, the readers can chose as they so desire.
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I'm simply not as enamored as you are. Authors often don't make enough money to survive, which means if ads become at all common or acceptable, they will become more common until they will be very difficult to avoid.
Some product mentions are already done in magazines and some YA books (there was a big hoopla about it last year when people found out that some makeup company paid to be mentioned in a popular YA book.) Probably happens more than we realize it NOW and this is before linking, flashing lights and whatnot.
All that said, I believe Sedona drives a Mercedes in Book one. Huntington drives ... I can't remember. He drove a Lexus in one of the books. If either car company would like to contact me to test for a few months/years EITHER vehicle, just let me know. I will be happy to test them out and, if deserving, put in any pertinent details in future books should my characters continue to drive them. Please include nifty gadgets because I like gadgets and they would be very likely to get some page time if I think they are way cool.
If there is any company out there that has a robo-maid, I'd really like to test that too...