Advertisement Policy

We’ve spent a considerable amount of time debating whether and how to serve ads in Skystone Software apps. I’ve decided that all apps will have a free ad-supported version, and each app will offer an upgrade option for a nominal one-time fee. Premium accounts will have ads removed from all app properties. For Skystone Reader, this means that the upgrade will remove ads from the Web version as well as the Windows Phone and Windows 8 App Store versions of the app. You will be able to upgrade from within the app itself, and it should be pretty seamless and painless.

We didn’t want to include ads in the free versions because ads are evil. However, as much as we want to share, we have development and hosting costs to consider. So we compromised and built our own ad delivery engine for Skystone Software apps. Free versions of our apps will have ads, but they will be served up to you in the least offensive and obtrusive manner possible. For details on what this means, please check out the Skystone Reader Ad Policy. Bottom line is that we continue to make the commitment not to track anything you do, and we extend that to our ads.

As always, thanks for your support, and happy reading!