Thread: Is ebook piracy on the rise?
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Old 08-09-2008, 07:51 PM   #316
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
What would the script have cost without the ads to subsidize them? Would you have been happier paying 2-3 times as much for the script, without ads?

Sure, some people may rip out ads... most people just ignore them. Until they see one that attracts their attention, or offers something they happen to want. That's the strength of ads, and why they have endured for so long.
Don't catch numbers out of thin air please, 2-3 times the cost for the script is sure not what the ads brought in. Actually it were often the ads for the store doing the production copying of the script, so there wasn't any money involved at all. Othertimes it was a bank doing some general sponsoring. There were also scripts without ads depending on which institute it came from. There wasn't any noticeable price difference.

So the some cents they brought in, yes I would have paid for them. I mean I open that thing to learn, not to be pumped up with ads.
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