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Amazon to put ads in Kindle books?

Amazon apparently filed for a patent on contextual advertising in ebooks, according to Slashdot. Meaning that while you're reading Eat, Pray, Love on your Kindle, you may be directed to local restaurants via ads in the margins.

This is, of course, similar to what Google is doing on its website already, and will be doing via Google Book Search. On Google, it's not terribly intrusive - but we are not yet accustomed to ads in books.

That said, there hasn't been an enormous hue and cry...yet. 

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