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Why magazines lose money on subscriptions

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That twelve-dollar annual magazine subscription barely covers the cost of postage. Print publications gleefully take a financial loss on sending you their product because a massive subscriber base allows them to charge luxury brands astronomical rates for full-page glossy advertisements. You are not the customer; you are the product being sold to perfume companies.

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