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I, on the other hand, avoid advertisements. I get very few through my email, and email from senders I don't recognize get deleted unread. I use ad blocking software, so I don't see ads on my computer screen.
I get my book suggestions via a few trusted review sites - and I have plenty to read, more than I can catch up on.
I may be excessive in my avoidance of ads, but advertising dollars are wasted on people like me.
So publishers have to add more value to their books than just advertising for me to be willing to spend money on the Big 6 books. Things like gate keeping and editing (more than just proofreading, but true editing) are more important to me - and poor editing and formatting are usually called out in the reviews I read, and so factor in my purchase decisions (although as I get better at using Calibre and Sigil, there's a lot of bad formatting that I'm willing to put up with - heck, it's even kind of fun.)
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