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Originally Posted by BurBunny
I'd actually really LIKE to see ads... in the newspapers. Ads in books, not particularly, unless they were only at the beginning or similar. I don't want to think of ads at the beginning or end of each chapter, however... can you imagine how many that would be in, say, a James Patterson novel? Ewww!
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In the past, advertising was a perfectly normal way to help sell novels, of course. All the popular 19th century British novelists used to sell their books in either monthly or weekly installments in magazines which were heavily supported by advertising. You'd read a page of Dickens' latest "epic" and then, before you got to the next page, be faced with a double-page spread advertising household cleaning products or toothpaste!