From: Tripod Depot (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 05:33:04 PDT
You say, Brian,
> ..."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."
and
> "I generally find the ads in specialty magazines a source of quite helpful
> information."
Whether helpful or not, aren't ads, an unsolicited mix of allegation and information?
Unsolicited, precisely. In that, they make me think of unsolicited "lovemaking".
When going for a walk, etc., etc.
On the magazines, you add
> ..."people seem to buy that sort of thing expressly *for* ads."
Something to do with unscrubbed sequels of parental inculcation?...
Yours,
tripodt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Frye" <email suppressed>
To: <email suppressed>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: Journal of Short Film
> 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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