Repositioning the "Wizards Presents:" books

[JDJblatherings]

Nice strawman attempt, but that doesn't invalidate my point at all.

Any magazine you buy has at least 25% of it's page count devoted to ads (only a rare few don't). Thus, any magazine you buy has you paying for advertisements. If you pay for a cable TV subscription, you've got dozens of channels with advertisements running all the time. If you go to the movies, there is a whole little "pre-show entertainment" segment that is just chock full of ads. In some cities, if you ride the bus, you've got a bunch of ads plastered on the side.

Thus, your money is going towards things that provide you with advertisements, and thus, you are paying for advertisements.

no, you have it completely backwards. advertisers pay money to the magzine in the hopes you will see the ad. Yo uare not paying for the ads, that ads are paying for themselves and part of the printing cost for the non-ad poriton of the magazine.