Sam, while I agree whole heartedly to your points from the other side, I myself would feel extremely short changed as a reader to find that more than half the issue consists of advertisements.
Now that would not hurt so much if the magazine cost the same. BUT, here we have a situation where they raise the cost of the magazine by a good 65% and provide no additional value for that amount!
To add to the grief, subscribers DID NOT receive any of the free gifts or DVD's you refer to. I have no idea what other items were included with the ACI issue. Atleast the Overdrive issue came with a DVD. Ofcourse, i guess you could argue that a subscriber also did not pay extra for that issue.
I do agree that I too like to check out the ad's. But 250 plus pages of ad's is rubbish.
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