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I think people buy Vogue (and all other advertising-sodden media) despite the ads, not because of it.
by crummy 9y ago
I think people buy Vogue (and all other advertising-sodden media) despite the ads, not because of it.
- zimpenfish 9y agoIt would be an interesting experiment to put out a non-ad-subsidised version of Vogue and see how many people bought it. I would guess at "not that many".
- LeoNatan25 9y agoIf it’s “900” pages of pure content, rather than ads, hell, even I’d buy it.
- zimpenfish 9y agoIt's 900 pages of pure content ... but costs $95.
- Kiro 9y agoYou're probably in minority though. It's like a catalogue. The "pure content" is just fluff.
- utexaspunk 9y agoEven if that "content" is boilerplate drivel like "25 Ways to Drive Him Wild in Bed!"?
- MrMid 9y agoWouldn't that be called a "book"?
- elkos 9y agoIt is my understanding that a similar publication nowadays, Cosmopolitan, used to be mostly a literary publication in it's early days. I wonder how the contents vs advertising ratio was balanced at the time.
- Kiro 9y agoYou definitely want to see the ads. It's like a catalogue.