Yes it is TRUE.
Now you can earn money by displaying contextual ads on your pdf documents. It has been made possible by a combined effort of Adobe with Yahoo. You have to use a special plugin "Ads for pdf" of Adobe PDF Acrobat 9, which will allow you to serve context based ads related to your content, when any user reads your pdf document in his PC. If he clicks on these ads, then a browser window opens and he is taken to the advertisers website. The advertisers pays money, and you are given a share of that.
Ads for Adobe PDF is a new opt-in service that enables publishers to monetize their PDF content through advertising. The advertising service, powered by Yahoo!, automatically matches and displays dynamic, contextual ads in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat when a user views the PDF. Publishers that sign up to participate in this program are eligible to be paid for valid clicks on ads. In this unique advertising relationship, Yahoo! helps connect advertisers from its extensive network of online advertisers with publishers that are distributing content through Adobe PDFs. Yahoo! will incorporate this new advertising inventory into its portfolio of online advertising opportunities.
There are a total of 10 different ad sizes and a variety of ad color palettes, including a combination of border, background and text colors. The Ad formats are similar to hugely popular Adsense ads.
This will surely pave a new income stream for offline publishers and content developers.
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August 31st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
what about users who don’t have net connection or not connected to internet when they open PDF …
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Great! Yahoo has come out with the right thing at the right time.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:40 am
That’s a really great thing for those who write eBooks. I have a friend who does that and she’s into PPC advertising, I should let her know about this… thanks.
xo Melbel ox
September 4th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I really don’t know if this will be a hit. I think maybe giving away free content (in pdf) in exchange for watching ads?
Hard to see how this will succeed. But I don’t blame Adobe for trying to monetize on something that is making everyone a lot of money.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am
What a great ‘on-time’ post. I had no idea yahoo offered such a thing. I know a webmaster who might be able to earn a few bucks with this.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Interesting move by Adobe and Yahoo but I’m not convinced it’ll be a big success. PDF documents are a fairly small niche when it comes to the web as a whole but it could prove to be useful to eBook publishers.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:01 am
WoW, this idea is really awesome, as we not only can earn through our blogs/websites, but even not we can make some money with our Ebook/PDF files as well!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Is it included in YPN (Yahoo Publishing Network,..correct me if i am wrong)? But most people download the PDF file and read the file when disconnected from internet.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I have never heard of that. Nice to see Yahoo be in front of Google Adsense for a change.
This is great if you have some free eBooks lying around but do not know how to monetize
September 18th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Man you don’t even know how long I’ve waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget (that doesn’t work since Haloscan bypasses that code).
September 21st, 2008 at 2:57 am
Wow! That’s great for students like my friend, She is always into making pdf copies of her course books and solution and for the magazines,. I guess it would work for her and she can make little money for herself.
Yahoo always works so fine, thanks to yahoo and adobe
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Interesting post. I want to run a business soon, so I’ll keep this post in mind. Becoming, what I hope, an entrepreneur is somewhat new to me, so I can use all the help and advice I can get! I know it’ll be tough. Lately I’ve been thinking about the idea of buying a business instead of starting from scratch. I’m not sure what I should go for. Franchise? Home-based? I don’t know. Do you have any suggestions or advice? Thanks!