.:: Advertising and ebooks ::.
So, the worthy publishers are just waiting until they can get a workable model, and then we’ll get adverts in our ebooks.
COME ON, GUYS
The reason we read novels is so we can ‘lose’ ourselves in the story. Author intrusion - that situation where the reader is brought out of the story by some crass text or errors in the writing - is one of the failings of some writing. So the LAST THING we want to see in our electronic novels is an advert sitting there on the page or maybe some stupid popup appearing when the money-grabbing publishers feel we need the opportunity to spend some money.
The sooner the e-publishers reproduce the novel-reading experience, at a less-than-treebook price, the sooner we can all start using the wonderful technology we’re seeing now. If there’s one thing guaranteed to stifle the march of e-reading, it’s stupid overpricing of the stuff we want to read.
End of rant. For now.
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