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It's not surprising that a whole bunch of folks -let's call them the ads-haters- have a posted a lot of "No effing way" comments. When anything new is proposed the naysayers always come out in force to explain why such and such is "impossible." What's interesting is the vehemence with which the ad haters denounce the very possibility of ads in ebooks as not just impossible, or economically infeasible, but as actually immoral.This goes way over the top, IMO. Folks are even saying that no true author will sully their works with ads, and they seem to go so far as to condemn even the possibilityof an ad-supported version, existing alongside a full-price no ads version. TBH, I find such a response absurd. If you can get an ad-free version by paying full price, why should you even be concerned that there is also an ad-supported version?
I think a problem for ad-haters is that they CANNOT concieve that there is a class of persons out there that is ad-tolerant . For the ad hater , to imagine such a thing is like imagining that gravity pushes or that there are square circles. Yet such a class of persons exists. Witness the huge success of the KSO. Witness too, the millions of people who sign up for Groupons or similar promotional vehicles. Such people LOVE getting ads and hearing about bargains. Such people certainly wouldn't be turned off by the appearance of these kinds of deals in the books- quite the contrary. They WANT to get news of such deals.
Now I don't know what the model for ads in ebooks could work. What I doknow is that such a model exists- it just hasn't been found yet. The wise businessman to concieves of such a model -and the wise author who partners with that businessman - will make big money by catering to the ad-tolerant person.
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