Amazon, ebooks and advertising (via Tools of Change for Publishing)
This post originally appeared on Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog (“Why Advertising Could Become Amazon’s Knockout Punch“). This version has been lightly edited. It all started harmlessly enough with Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers. That’s the cheaper Kindle that displays ads when…
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