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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Not so painful, eh?
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No, I'm still strictly against product placement in books. Okay it works with fiction that plays in the "now-time". But what about a story that plays in the age of romans? How do you place products there? So what happens nobody is going to write that kind of stories anymore. And then we already have it, we have advertisment taking seriously influence on the content, going as far to determine what is going to be written and what isn't.
The stuff gets even more troublesome when doing non-fiction. Say I write a book about the life of may beetles? Do I have to mention a hummer there too? And yet a step worser, say I write a book about the history of cars. When making money from product placement, doesn't it make my effort look really hypocritical?