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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If and only if ALL solicitation for donations is "pleading".
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One can always become a member of NPR, and they frequently make that known, but if they don't make enough, they interrupt their programming for several days and plead for members.
Calibre has a donation button on it's tool bar. I'm not privy to Kovid's financial status, but community comments seem to suggest he gets enough in donations to support Calibre. He so far has not seen fit put a series of banner adds up pleading for more donations.
Wikipedia has.
There is a difference there.
p.s. I suspect NPR would have the pledge drive no matter what, but they CLAIM they would cancel it if they got enough donations before hand.