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I've never encountered any ads in printed books. Edit because I can't be bothered to reply to all the comments below: excerpts from other books (often by the s
by elric 5y ago
I've never encountered any ads in printed books.
Edit because I can't be bothered to reply to all the comments below: excerpts from other books (often by the same author, or in a similar genre) are not ads IMO. They're not intrusive. They're pretty much always relevant. They're fun to read. They don't contain tracking cookies. They're as benign as it gets.
- jjgreen 5y agoI've read a few cheap paperbacks from the 1930s and 40s with a couple of pages of ads at the end; mostly for trousers, hairpieces or departments stores. Strange.
- notyourwork 5y agoEver read a newspaper or magazine?
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- squarefoot 5y agoThey're completely different from books in this context. A newspaper is usually read within hours from its print; a magazine within days; a book might require six months or six years to be read. Nobody except maybe the same publishing company and a few other businesses would have use for ad space that would require so much time to be seen.
- pueblito 5y agoTons of books come with a teaser for another book added to the end of it
- thaumasiotes 5y agoEven more commonly, a page of "also by this author:".
- Brian_K_White 5y agoI have. Sometimes old paperbacks had glossy full color card stock sheets stuck right in the middle. Glued and cut just like all the other pages.
- willcipriano 5y agoYou have never read a little golden book[0]? The back cover is often ads for other kids books. I recall the Goosebumps books did the same with a PO box that you could send a check to in order to get more books. Sci-fi paperbacks often have ads for other books as well. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Golden_Books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Golden_Books
- _ph_ 5y agoI have a couple of German paperbacks which had one ad in the middle of a book, often for an instant soup or something like that. But at least it was easy to skip :).
- salgernon 5y agoThis happened to one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books[1] - he changed publishers after this. [1] https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2015/02/14/whats-rihannsu-soup/ https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2015/02/14/whats-rihan...
- _ph_ 5y agoYes, that is exactly the kind of ads I was remembering, haven't seen them in a while. But it is funny how the ad text refers to the story it interrupts to pitch the soup :)
- swayvil 5y agoOld 70s scifi paperbacks. Full color ad for cigarettes right in the middle.
- InitialLastName 5y agoMass-market paperbacks frequently include ads (usually for other books in the publication line) in the back. One could also think of "Read this excerpt from the next book by $AUTHOR" as an ad.
- pengaru 5y agoA newer fiction book I skimmed after finding it abandoned at a campsite seemed to have overt and contrived repeated mentions of bmw automobiles, including the models, in places such details didn't seem to have anything at all to do with the story. It left me wondering if some authors now secure contracts to always use a specific brand of $foobar if $foobar makes an appearance in their stories. The only time I've ever encountered this level of repeated brand shilling in a book I actually intended to read was Vonnegut's Bluebeard and its Sateen Dura-Luxe. But there it played a significant part of the story, and it's a fictional brand..
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Edit because I can't be bothered to reply to all the comments below: excerpts from other books (often by the same author, or in a similar genre) are not ads IMO. Ah, so what you mean is you've never encountered an online ad in a printed book.
- 8note 5y agoMy Newfoundland community recipe book is chock full of ads. Especially useless ones considering how far away I live from all of those stores