{"id":6774,"date":"2012-11-10T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2012-11-10T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:02:13","slug":"ad-supported-free-books-are-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/ad-supported-free-books-are-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Supported Free Books Are The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111012_1659_AdSupported1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dominic Basulto believes that soon, you&#8217;ll be able to read books for free \u2013 although you&#8217;ll have to watch intermittent ads as you read them. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Books could be a lucrative market for advertizers. In the middle of a romantic scene in the novel you might see a small popup for a sale at a local flower shop.<\/li>\n<li>While the ads might seem irritating, the result is that you could get your books for free \u2013 although they might be sponsored by some company when you buy it.<\/li>\n<li>The only reason we don&#8217;t see ads in actual paper books already is because there is no immediacy in advertizing. Books are read and re-read months and years from when they&#8217;re bought. Ads bought when the book was published would not be relevant when the reader would read them.<\/li>\n<li>However the rise of e-readers solves this problem. The ads would dynamically update based on when you&#8217;re reading the book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out why authors won&#8217;t really oppose this move, and why books aren&#8217;t sacred over <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/endless-innovation\/why-tablets-will-lead-to-ad-supported-books\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/endless-innovation\/why-tablets-will-lead-to-ad-supported-books\">Big Think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Basulto believes that soon, you&#8217;ll be able to read books for free \u2013 although you&#8217;ll have to watch intermittent ads as you read them. Highlights include: Books could be a lucrative market for advertizers. In the middle of a romantic scene in the novel you might see a small popup for a sale at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111012_1659_AdSupported1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6777,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}