RE: Forget Ads In Books, Lit-lovers Face An Even More Hideous Prospect

 FYI -- the publisher contract for Kobobooks asks if you will allow ads in
books.  Presumably Kobo will do the selling, not the publisher.

Best wishes.

Richard

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Forget Ads In Books, Lit-lovers Face An Even
More Hideous Prospect

As I understand the way Iads works on the Ipad and Iphone and Touch, the
publisher doesn't have to sell ads.  He just has to make sure his software
supports them.  Apple has the staff to find the advertisers and that's what
they do.
If my understanding is correct and that makes them money then it won't be
long before someone jumps in to provide the same service on other platforms,
assuming they aren't already there.
I think that renders the arguments linked to below invalid.
I certainly hope I'm wrong.  I buy my books but I won't buy ads.
Barry
--- On Tue, 8/24/10, joseph harris <[email protected]> wrote:

From: joseph harris <[email protected]>
Subject: [ebook-community] Forget Ads In Books, Lit-lovers Face An Even More
Hideous Prospect
To: [email protected]
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Forget Ads In Books, Lit-lovers Face An Even More Hideous Prospect

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http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/eat-pay-love/



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