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If the Gideons can put a bible in every hotel room in the United States, you'd hope the biggest country in the world could ship a couple books. You don't charge

• klodolph 5y ago
  What you are saying makes no sense to me at all. Like, I just don't even remotely grok the logic of this. Just because you have the money / resources to do something yourself, does not mean that you should do that thing. Generally speaking, a bookseller will be more efficient at selling and delivering books to people who want books. Why on earth would you expect a political party to try and duplicate that effort? There are tons of good reasons why so much effort is outsourced to third parties these days. Second, it is downright common to charge people to view advertisements. That's what magazines are. Magazines are a bit dead now, but the way they work is you get a bunch of advertisements, bundle it up with some content, and then charge people for it. They're not paying for the content (the content is already funded by the advertisements) and they're not paying for the physical copy, they're paying because the advertisers demand that it be so. Not all magazines work this way, but this is the general idea. It turns out that people are more receptive to advertising if you make them pay for it first.
  • kevin_young 5y ago
    Cool it buddy