iPhone;573443 Wrote: > Sorry you feel it was directed at you Kal, it wasn't. I was speaking > about what TAS or Stereophile might need to do, not what you needed to > attempt (unless your thinking of starting a HiFi rag). That is why I > used JA, Wes, and Art as examples. Ad revenues are down as are > subscriptions or I wouldn't get my bi-monthly renewal bribe of less > then a dollar an issue.I understand.
> The model could be supported by additional ad revenue that this format > at these two magazines would probably generate.Possibly but I have heard that > the ad rates cannot be increased summarily due to increased distribution because most of the advertisers have limited budgets. The only cures for that are to cover general merchandise or for their to be a major recovery of the entire industry. > The equipment for reviews comes from the manufacture so there is no > cost there. The standardization of reviewers home systems could be a > cost of employment and probably have components available at cost by > manufactures.> > > Again, there are very few employees. Most all of us are > piece-workers > > and do it, mostly, for pleasure. Any purchase "requirements" would > > wipe out the small remunerations received. > > > > > > > > > The odd thing about this current thread is that nobody has > > > > > > > responded > > > opposing the view that the product reviews are not worth much since > > > they are in a format that doesn't lend itself well to comparison.> > > > > > > That is one way to interpret the silence from others. ;-) -- Kal Rubinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kal Rubinson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40032 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81346 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
