> placing banner ads in the middle of textbooks would be a dystopia The far-less capitalist, far more revered society that is Germany actually did this, far be

> placing banner ads in the middle of textbooks would be a dystopia The far-less capitalist, far more revered society that is Germany actually did this, far before the age of surveillance capitalism. Not sure about textbooks speficically, but it was definitely a thing with fiction, to the point of editing foreign books so that the ad would form part of the plot. See e.g. https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/ https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...