http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/07/why-ebooks-are-not-like-paper-.html

TRX July 5, 2012
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Have you ever asked yourself why you don't already see (static) ads in print books? ... A battle that was fought and won before I was born.
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Signet and (if I remember right) Pinnacle had heavy cardboard ad inserts bound in until the late 1970s in the US market. Trying to remove them usually broke the spine of the book.

I recently read two action-adventure novels by Brad Thor. They were adequately written, but they have some repetitive descriptions of products that straddle the divide between "authorial boilerplate" and "looks like paid inline advertising."

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but over time cinemas have faded away

What? Figures have been roughly static for the last two decades
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Cinemas are probably unevenly distributed, and likely concentrated on high- density urban areas. In the last 20 years, my local market has gone from six or seven to zero within about a 30 mile radius.

They were a long time dying, even after most of them went to showing the same movie for a month at a time...

We still a few bookstores left, in their "video store that has a few bestsellers" and "used romance exchange" incarnations.