Originally Posted by howyoudoin
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.
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