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Ads in eBooks Are a Good Thing. Deal with It.

April 20th, 2011 · 11 Comments · opinion

Amazon is introducing an advertising component to the Kindle platform.  I love it.  Kudos to Jeff Bezos & Co. for their forward thinking on this initiative.  I’m talking about the less expensive ($114) device currently known as “Kindle with Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers.”  (It’s not the sexiest name but it certainly describes the product! [...]

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Amazon’s new Kindle ads now up

November 10th, 2010 · No Comments · humor, video

As per their usual, Amazon have uploaded the latest 2 Kindle adverts to Youtube. These aren’t quite as interesting as before.  I think they might be the last Kindle adverts I post. The first few were interesting novelties. Now they’re just adverts. They’re after the break.

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If you sell me an ebook with ads, I will hit you

August 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · opinion

Sorry, I just wanted to make my opinion clear from the beginning. There’s an article in yesterday’s WSJ where the author advocates adding advertising to ebooks in order to cover the cost. With e-reader prices dropping like a stone and major tech players jumping into the book retail business, what room is left for publishers’ [...]

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Conde Nast’s Plans for iPad Ads Become Clearer

April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, video

From the Wall Street Journal: On the eve of GQ magazine’s debut on the iPad, how its publisher plans to sell advertising on the device is coming into focus. Conde Nast, whose app for GQ is available in the App Store for $2.99, has signed five advertisers for the first issue of GQ under an [...]

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