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Originally Posted by koland
The problem is that advertising is what subsidizes the papers that are printing - the Kindle version has no ads, therefore no-one to pay for the Kindles. If there were a full PDF viewer or the ability to embed ads (both requiring a much larger eink screen), then it would make sense for them to sell a year subscription with a free viewer at a single bundle price.
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It could very well have ads in it though, couldn't it? Many articles I read online are divided into pages that would probably fit an e-readers's "page" and do in fact contain one ad, often in the middle.
And considering how many things in this world are financed by advertising, I think it's not unlikely to happen (Heck, most of the internet works this way..). It will probably take a while though, because right now most customers would (at least I guess so) not be very likely to give up their paper newspaper (What would be a newspaper you can't hide behind!
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