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I was wondering why this thing is 578 pages long, and it turns out it's at least 80% advertising if the first 50 pages are anything to go by.
by VyseofArcadia 4y ago
I was wondering why this thing is 578 pages long, and it turns out it's at least 80% advertising if the first 50 pages are anything to go by.
- mikelevins 4y agoI worked in a bookstore at the start of the 1980s. Its magazine section had many hundreds of titles (I stocked them). All of them were more or less that way: mostly ads by page area and page count, with the ratio of ads to content rising as you got toward the back of the magazine (but with most magazines maintaining the last couple of pages for distinctive editorial content). Magazines are generally much slimmer nowadays. Magazine racks are generally smaller and less ubiquitous. I presume the ad dollars have mostly moved onto the web, and the great majority of magazines have shrunk—many disappearing entirely.
- lymeswold 4y agoBecause leafing through ads for stuff in 1983 was the equivalent of googling for stuff today.