• Thalestr@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I feel a bit of sadness over this but at the same time I am not surprised at all. It was hard to justify paying for their magazines when seemingly 2/3rd’s of it was advertisements.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      You appear unclear on the business model of print publications. Readers have always been the product being sold to advertisers, with a cover price designed to hit the sweet spot for the desired demographic in the case of magazines that essentially no one pays because they subscribe for a fraction of that rack rate.

      A 33% newshole is pretty damned good for a pub with that many full-bleed colour positions for editorial.