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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Lots of pbooks have ads in them-at least lots of the books I read, but I enjoy reading old books. Of course these are ads for books-I'm not sure I've ever seen a book with an ad for furniture, groceries, etc. But what do you think the 'other books by this author' page at the front of many books is, if not an ad? And lots of old books (both hard & soft cover) had explicit ads at the back of the book.
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I don't mind the Wizards of the Coast format of advertising. The ones where they would excerpt from Book 2 or another work they have out.
I don't really consider that "new" advertising, as most of the ebooks I have show "also by this author" and so forth. The article mentions something similar to web adverts, except "better"
and THAT is what I have a problem with.
I'd also have a problem purchasing a book and opening it to find an explicit ad in the cover unless it was something I purchased that was explicit in itself. If I bought an erotica novel and there was a dirty ad in it, so be it. That sort of stuff is expected. But to find it on Pride and Prejudice or Tolstoy. That would be like an egregious sin. It's also something that I'd expect to see in True Detective or maybe another form of pulp magazines. Advertising is best served there.