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Originally Posted by Dusty Bottoms
Actually I don't believe modern publishing will survive the next ten years, ad-supported or not (weird de ja vu over all this). I think all these forms of entertainment will collapse in on themselves and leave us building something new and fresh out of the ashes.
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That is quite possible, stupid ideas like the "agency model" and the current DRM mess tend to support this hypothesis. However, if the publishers disappear, they will replaced by the likes mentioned -- Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. Who may well distribute the books for "free" using an ad-supported model and hopefully, still offer ad free versions for a charge.