DDJ is lost forever
Mark Jones
jones at ingr.UUCP
Thu Sep 22 01:36:22 AEST 1988
I just got my October issue of DDJ. Just to help support Holubs
accusation that the readers matter not one bit, and the advertisers are
king, I offer the following, grim, statistics:
October 1988 Dr Dobb's Journal
152 total pages (not counting covers)
94 ad pages (not counting covers)
73 of which are full page ads
16.5 code pages
5 of which are full page
This comes to more than 61% of the magazine being advertisements, and
only 11% code. Oh well, guess its good the subscription is up at the
end of next month.
Janurary 1986 Dr Dobb's Journal
128 total pages (not counting covers)
56.3 ad pages (not counting covers)
34 of which are full page adds
15.6 code pages
6 of which are full page
This comes to only 44% ads, and 12% code.
So we lost one percent of the code, got an extra 24 pages, and an extra
5% of crap. Life is not pretty.
In my mind, facts speak pretty loudly. Dr Dobbs has gotten my last
dollar they will ever get. Down with M&T publishing!
Mark Jones
PS Sorry, this probably belongs in some stupid magazine group, to which
I don't subscribe, and you probably don't either.
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