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I might be the odd one out but I have made it nearly a mission in life Not to buy the loud, irritating, flashily advertised doodads. I don't care if it's the best thing since sliced bread, I really don't even care if it will save the world... if you piss me off with your advertising, you lose my $.
The overly loud tv commercial which makes me have to adjust the sound every 30-60 seconds is the worst. Some moron is actually getting Paid to come up with that garbage and they're allowed to... they assault our ears and insult our intelligence... do you buy that stuff? I don't, I won't.
I'll buy something else or do without.
When it comes to ebooks, it won't matter "how" they do it, it won't work with or for me. In paperbacks, the first thing to go are the irritating inserted cardboard pages stuck in the center of the book-I don't look at them so I doubt I buy whatever they are advertising.
Magazines? Yep, I'm the one that probably drives the store clerks crazy. If I'm buying it, all the fly away junk stuck in the thing I've ALREADY paid for get left behind. Publishing seems to have taken to the idea that... they can charge us for an item that they then "sell" to other folks in the form of advertising. To me, that's theft... similar to the cable example I gave earlier. Don't tell me I have to pay to watch movies then break them up in chunks to make even more $ at My expense.
So no. I won't be buying ebooks with ads in them. If need be, I'll sell the reader and go back to paperbacks that I can tear them out of so I'm not bothered with it.
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