5 tweets | 9 @tweets
5 tweets | 9 @tweets
RandomHouseCA: #toc reminder from Google that books in search program benefit also from speed of viewing page load
RandomHouseCA: when do you think ebooks will eclipse print in sales? Readership? #toc
RandomHouseCA: As a reader would you mind of there were ads in your books? #toc
: @RandomHouseCA Sure if the value of the book outweighed the cost in terms of time and annoyance of the ads. Same as TV/google #toc
: @RandomHouseCA It depends, if they were ads for similar books, no. But anything non-book/reading related, probably. #toc
: by @RandomHouseCA: As a reader would you mind of there were ads in your books? #toc
: @randomhouseca I've actually bought print books that had ads in them. Old mens-adventures with a cigarette ad bound into the middle. #toc
RandomHouseCA: People seem divided on the ads in books question. Would you actively not buy a book with an ad in it? #toc
: @RandomHouseCA Depends how obtrusive the ad, and whether I could rip it out w/o harming the rest. Or are you talking e-books? #toc
: @randomhouseca Remember, people don't (as a rule) LIKE ads. They block them on their computers, skip them on their TIVOs. #toc
: @RandomHouseCA To see them pop up in something that's been traditionally ad-free might provoke a backlash. #toc
: @RandomHouseCA He# no! No ads in books! If the book can't pay for itself maybe it shouldn't be published. #toc
RandomHouseCA: Thanks for all the feedback re: ads in books, it's a very theoretical question from Heather who is at #TOC and is hearing all the buzz -Jess
: @RandomHouseCA #toc Nope, would NOT buy a book with ads. Bad enough that there's ad placement in text sometimes: "He sipped his Starbucks."