From: owen (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 17:52:42 PDT
Brian,
It's a DVD anthology. Who are these guys and where do they get their
funding?
Owen
On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Brian Frye wrote:
> Congratulations on the new journal. It sounds very interesting,
> and I look forward to reading it. However, I found the following
> puzzing:
>
> "The JSF is ad-free and is committed to keeping the cost of=20
> subscriptions low. ($10/vol., $36/subscription for 4 volumes, at=20
> www.theJSF.org)"
>
> First, these two goals seem, well, at odds with one another. Not
> accepting ads is guaranteed to make the journal more expensive.
> And, honestly, $10/$36 isn't such a bargain. Second, what's the
> rationale for excluding ads? I can understand the appeal for
> public TV, as ad breaks are distracting and often quite annoying.
> But I've never found them so in magazines. At least within
> reason. And I guess I'm not a big Vogue reader... But then people
> seem to buy that sort of thing expressly *for* ads. And really,
> I'd think that one of the virtues of a specialty magazine of the
> sort your selling is that potential advertisers can know quite
> precisely and easily what audience they're reaching... And what's
> more, I generally find the ads in specialty magazines a source of
> quite helpful information. Perhaps I'm just peculiar in that
> respect. But I suspect not.
>
> Brian Frye
>
>
>
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