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Old 10-31-2011, 02:08 PM   #132
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Originally Posted by howyoudoin View Post
It's a very sound precedent, and the only one that is even remotely relevant. Serialisation of novels in magazines works with ads because the very act of serialisation breaks the flow, and thus the addition of ads there has no flow to break. If a novel ebook is serialised and sold in installments, then sure, stack on the ads. Addition of ads within a complete novel ebook will be bound by the failure of the attempt at inserting ads into paperback novels.

People were also vehement in their opposition to ads in paperback novels, and that is a more relevant precedent than the KSO model which is clearly a different model to inserting ads within the actual books themselves.
This may surprise you, but there may be folks who may not view ads as that big of a break in the action that would ruin their reading experience. Such people may welcome an ad-supported version, if brings them lower prices and the possibility of a good bargain. Again, I think most ad haters can't concieve of such people, but they exist.
It willo depend also on the kind of ads. Most people who object to ads think at once of the worst kind of web ads, but there are other, less obstrusive types of ads,. Again, its hard forme to understand why the ad haters resist the possibility of an ad-supported option, if an ad-free option remains available. I'd like some feedback on that.
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