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And the history of all media (TV, Radio, Newspapers etc.) is to take money away from the people who want to turn money into sales.

Now it just depends on whether you want to be a media website or a product website.

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All media? No, I don't think so. Books, films, music, games, the list goes on. In fact it is only a quite small subset of media that have been able to successfully fund themselves through media.

As far as I know, the media is not able to take any money away. For some time, it was not possible to turn money into sales more effectively.

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