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Originally Posted by Alisa
I'm assuming you're talking about periodicals and blogs? I always figured most of the cost for that was providing them to you without ads. After all, content that's "free" on a website isn't quite free. You're renting a bit of your attention to the owners for them to resell to advertisers. Personally, I'd like the option to get them for free (or for a small delivery charge) with the ads.
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Yeah, there's no reason why Amazon couldn't have left the ads in. I seriously doubt the publishers of the content will make as much money from subscription fees (especially since Amazon will be taking their cut) as they would from their advertisers.