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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
It sounds that way, because it's a "Slashdork" speculating about what Amazon might do with the patent.
There's no way to know yet what Amazon will or won't do with this, everything (including my comments) is pure speculation.
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Quite correct. But the whole purpose of speculation is, in essence, to run a Monty Carlo simulation on the possibilities of a change. If you don't like some of the possibilities, the time to attempt to affect a change is before it occurs, rather that after it already exists.
As for my previous tone, since this was about the addition of advertising, I thought a huckster/barker tone would be appropriate. Apparently, some posters didn't agree...
I merely point out that this idea, is capable of making book reading on a device subject to this patent rather like TV. There is no click-through on TV, only eyeballs viewing the ad. If, say Coca-Cola for example, was offered the advertising opportunity to place a Coke@ ad before every available reader during the summer, they might be interested, if the number of readers were large enough. it wouldn't matter to them
what book was being read, Jane Austin or Dan Brown. They'll push to
all of them....