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Originally Posted by stonetools
Novels like "Crime and Punishment ", "David Copperfield" and " A Study in Scarlet" were originally serialized in ad-filled magazines.
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...and then the ads went away when they were published as novels (except for, in modern editions, blurbs at the beginning and end for other books by that publisher and/or author), barring a brief period where no significant amount of money was made from placing easily-ignored inserts.
The big problem with ads in ebooks is the same as for ads on the 'Net: they won't be just ads, they will be used as a way to track and measure every single thing you do while the ebook is open and that information passed on to the advertisers.