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Originally Posted by stonetools
This may surprise you, but there may be folks who may not view ads as that big of a break in the action that would ruin their reading experience. Such people may welcome an ad-supported version, if brings them lower prices and the possibility of a good bargain. Again, I think most ad haters can't concieve of such people, but they exist.
It willo depend also on the kind of ads. Most people who object to ads think at once of the worst kind of web ads, but there are other, less obstrusive types of ads,. Again, its hard forme to understand why the ad haters resist the possibility of an ad-supported option, if an ad-free option remains available. I'd like some feedback on that.
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I'm arguing this from a strictly logical point of view, from the clear precedent that exists. If ads did bring down prices and consumers welcomed them, the ads in paperbacks experiment would have been successful to the point of being an industry standard. It isn't. Magazines have the ad supported model pinned down. Novels haven't. Clearly the segment of readers who prefer ad interrupted novels is insignificant enough for the publishers to drop the idea and not even attempt to cater to them by bringing out ad supported and discounted versions of paperbacks that they regularly publish in 'clean' form.