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If you open a book and find adverts to buy random products like deodorant, or popular soft drinks, then I agree and I'd stop buying books by that author/publisher depending who was to blame. If it's a note at the start or end of a book to let you know what other books this author has written or books by similar authors genre/style wise. That's actually useful to both authors, publishers and readers. A rare thing. Ads anywhere other than that though, that's a hanging offence |
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I remember when I was a teenager in the 1970s, advertising in paperbacks was very common. You'd have a page of cardboard with perforated edges in the middle of the book, with adverts for all sorts of things.
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Ripping those out was the first thing I did after paying for the book that I just paid US$ 1.25 for
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Publishers have a long tradition of listing mini-catalogs of their books at the end of the book (for more than a century), so I don't mind a few pages of advertisement of other books by the author or publisher. |
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I even ordered a few books that way, back before the internet. It always felt a bit risky and strange blindly mailing a list and money order to a faceless organization and getting a box of books a few months later, just after you'd forgotten about them. It wasn't convenient, but it had its pleasures.
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So Apple won't allow a link to a purchase page in their own store? Just looking for clarification.
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I've got adverts for all my titles in the ones on Apple, including the one they banned. No links on any of them, I don't see the point of that. Even people likely to want to read anything I wrote are intelligent enough to figure it out for themselves.
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05-02-2013, 12:36 PM | #25 |
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How about including the first chapter of one of our other books at the end of an ebook? I do this so readers will be aware of the other book. I don't ask anyone to "purchase" or to "buy" the book. That should be obvious. I do include my email address in case anyone wishes to contact me directly.
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05-02-2013, 02:59 PM | #28 |
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Not really unless you see some connection between telling someone else what to do and making decisions for yourself. Apparently, you do see a connection.
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I like having a list of the author's other books. I don't mind if it says "available at" and lists a store.
I prefer to have any long reviews of other books, sample chapters, etc. placed at the end of the book, not at the beginning. It's really annoying to have to keep flipping past a bunch of extraneous stuff before I can get started reading. |
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I never, ever read those sample chapters. If it's the next book in the series, I'll either get it or I won't based on what I just read. Otherwise, I don't start anything I don't have complete, or haven't yet checked out the synopsis and reviews. Even in paper books, I never, ever read them. A nice synopsis of other books I might browse, but never an actual chapter. Last edited by DuskyRose; 05-04-2013 at 11:43 AM. Reason: can't type |
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