With advertisements on TV (whether Cable or Broadcast), I've always looked at them as a nice break to go get a drink or discuss the show with whoever I was watching it with. I just mute the ads until the break is over with. In a book, that wouldn't be the case. You'd be stuck with those ads there whether you wanted them there or not. You can't just put the book down until the ad is over with because when you pick it up again, there's the ad. The only way to get rid of them would be to rip them out of the book. And who wants to damage their book?
We don't need ads in the margins, we don't need ads at the bottom as a subscript, we don't need ads at the end of a chapter. Anything that would upset the flow of the book is just unwanted, period.
As far as a "section in the middle", didn't they used to do that back in the seventies with paperbacks? In the middle would be pull out postcard advertisements for all sorts of things? I've read those books and didn't care for the interruption then, I wouldn't want it now either.
We don't need to "update" books, nor do we need to to change "burger" to "Big Mac" or "Whopper". That kind of thing should be up to the individual author who wrote the story to begin with.
If ads need to be put in books, they should be put at the end after the story like the publisher's ads are when they put them in. Just add a few ads (and make sure the company placing the ad gets charged for it) after the story is finished, and let the publisher throw in their own ads for other books by the author, or other books they've already published or are coming soon, and then wham! the book is over with and everyone is pleased: The author is pleased because no one messed with his or her prose to insert a senseless ad, the reader is pleased because the story flowed without interruption, the company placing the ad is pleased because they got their ad in there, and the publisher is pleased because they just made a little extra money from a company placing an ad without lowering the cost of the book they offered to us. All in all, a great deal.
If they do it this way. That's the only way I would continue buying books. And I read a LOT. I'd have to just stick with collecting all the old books in used bookstores if they did this to ensure I kept reading, but without the ads.
I really don't think people want ads in their books. It would just be too frustrating.
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With advertisements on TV (whether Cable or Broadcast), I've always looked at them as a nice break to go get a drink or discuss the show with whoever I was watching it with. I just mute the ads until the break is over with. In a book, that wouldn't be the case. You'd be stuck with those ads there whether you wanted them there or not. You can't just put the book down until the ad is over with because when you pick it up again, there's the ad. The only way to get rid of them would be to rip them out of the book. And who wants to damage their book?
We don't need ads in the margins, we don't need ads at the bottom as a subscript, we don't need ads at the end of a chapter. Anything that would upset the flow of the book is just unwanted, period.
As far as a "section in the middle", didn't they used to do that back in the seventies with paperbacks? In the middle would be pull out postcard advertisements for all sorts of things? I've read those books and didn't care for the interruption then, I wouldn't want it now either.
We don't need to "update" books, nor do we need to to change "burger" to "Big Mac" or "Whopper". That kind of thing should be up to the individual author who wrote the story to begin with.
If ads need to be put in books, they should be put at the end after the story like the publisher's ads are when they put them in. Just add a few ads (and make sure the company placing the ad gets charged for it) after the story is finished, and let the publisher throw in their own ads for other books by the author, or other books they've already published or are coming soon, and then wham! the book is over with and everyone is pleased: The author is pleased because no one messed with his or her prose to insert a senseless ad, the reader is pleased because the story flowed without interruption, the company placing the ad is pleased because they got their ad in there, and the publisher is pleased because they just made a little extra money from a company placing an ad without lowering the cost of the book they offered to us. All in all, a great deal.
If they do it this way. That's the only way I would continue buying books. And I read a LOT. I'd have to just stick with collecting all the old books in used bookstores if they did this to ensure I kept reading, but without the ads.
I really don't think people want ads in their books. It would just be too frustrating.