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Originally Posted by VydorScope
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You know, I'm not usually in the "books are sacred" crowd, but at a certain point (apparently for me, what you quoted is where it lies), the point stops being the text, and that seems really counter-intuitive to the whole point of a book.
Which is why it's going to attract content marketing types, as I feared.
I'm really confused how they got from point A to "eliminate piracy", because that point of their marketing makes no sense. Although, in a sad way it does, since the only way to prevent piracy is to make sure no one sees your book. This is a good way to do that, I think.
Maybe I'm underestimating how much nonsense people will tolerate to read something for free, but when the market is already saturated with free books that may or may not be crap, why would people want to read these, which may or may not be crap with advertising that causes your book to resemble an animated version of yellow pages? (Wow, that sentence was so awful. Apologies.)
I can kind of see the point of LIMITED advertising to subsidize books, but this is just goofy.