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August 23, 2010
Adding New Ecosystem Of Ads Within Books
By Neville Hobson
I conducted an ad hoc and wholly unscientific poll among a handful of my friends the other day about the possibility of advertising coming to books. It produced some strong (and predictable) negative reactions.

Hell freezing, dead bodies and metaphors about fat and slim peppered the comments I received. A minority felt ambivalent about the idea and said it was inevitable.

What prompted this little opinion-feeler was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal (paywall) a few days ago. According to the Journal, advertising in digital books is inevitable: on the one hand, pressures are constant on publishers to increase revenues; and on the other hand, our constant exposure to marketing and brand messaging in digital content is something we're becoming more accustomed to.

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