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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by cameronbrown on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:19PM (#20990602)
Your argument breaks down when you consider the thing that allows newspaper/web ads to be profitable is the cost of delivery effectively being reduced to zero, whereas a book still has massive printing costs that cannot be scaled as well (thousands of the same books vs. millions of the same newspapers/page views)
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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by sebastos on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:24PM (#20990639)
B-b-but what about ebooks?
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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by cameronbrown on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:56AM (#21006681)
Ebooks are an awful experience both buying and reading.
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