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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
... and adding advertising to the game sounds reasonable if it could help bring down prizes.
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Advertising isn't going to happen, period.
Reason: this battle was fought and won many decades ago by authors; there's boilerplate in every single one of my book contracts
expressly forbidding advertising, and this is standard industry practice. When Orbit wanted to add a simple extract from someone else's novel into my paperbacks (on a reciprocal basis) they had to come to me and ask me to sign a waiver to the contract in question.
It may work with newspapers or magazines, but there's no way in hell that Amazon could legally redistribute novels with adverts in them without laying themselves open to a lawsuit.