What I find most interesting through this discussion are the assumptions.
First, that revenues generated from internal eBook advertisements in eBooks published by mainstream publishing houses would actually get to the author.
Second, that the costs of reproducing an eBook has any correlation with the actual cost of generating the copy.
And finally, that eBook advertising is somehow necessary to bring the cost of eBooks down.
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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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If you aren't a reader, you will never be able to understand it. Readers of fiction enter into "a willing suspension of disbelief" which would be too easily shattered by the insertion of advertisements in the text.
First and foremost, as a reader I don't want ads in my novels.
But as a self publishing author, I most assuredly do not want ads ruining the reading experience for *my* readers.
Printed copies of books do have substantial real costs to duplicate. Yet somehow they have managed without the insertion of advertising in the text.
Why is this revenue stream perceived as being so necessary for eBooks?