Plib,
Trolls are people who rant. I was merely trying to address Katsunami's statement that "(Paper) Books are one of the very few things that are not spoiled by ads" which is simply not a fact. Maybe Katsunami didn't buy books with ads but I worked in paperback publishing and ads in mass market paperbacks have been common practice for decades. How you read into this that
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Originally Posted by plib
...there's some trolls trying to tell us that it's all a big misunderstanding and not to worry about it.  |
is just bizarre. There are legitimate concerns about new technologies but Katsunami's point was based on a contrast that is not true for entire market segments of publishing. Nonfiction is where much of this advertising occurs but nonfiction also outsells fiction 5 to one.
Hope the voices you're hearing (the ones trying to con you into that "interactive, tracking, advertising abomination") find some peace.