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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Patrons support artists with no expectation of recompense... essentially, out of the goodness of their hearts. I don't expect that to be particularly widespread, unless the govt changes the tax laws to allow those patrons to get a serious tax break.
I think advertising subsidies are much more likely to be common and successful than patronage. The only thing to be worked out is ad delivery (probably not embedded in books themselves, but displayed at the sale point).
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Whats interesting is that Elfwreck is dead set against the idea of ad-supported ebooks , even as he supports a status quo that leads inexorably towards this as the most likely solution adopted.
Of course, there may not be much difference between "The Truth about Global Warming" , financed by Exxon, and advertising by Exxon, really.