Dear MAKE crew,
I would like to make an appeal to you all concerning the inclusion of "pull-out" advertisements in the magazine. In particular is the emusic advertisement in the latest issue of the magazine. These types of advertisements are normally removed from the magazine by readers to make handling the publication easier. My removal of this advertisement did not go too smooth.
The way that it was pasted into the binding caused me to rip the facing pages, so now I have a hole in the magazine that I love to read. If this were any other magazine I would not care, but your publication possesses a need to be archived for future generations (my future children). I have been a charter subscriber to the magazine and have kept my volumes in pristine condition, awaiting the day that I could pass them on to a young mind in need of a creative outlet. I honestly felt more despair when I ripped the magazine trying to remove this advertisement than when my PS3's Blu-ray drive went tits up in the middle of watching 300 for the first time.
I guess I am getting a little dramatic, but I feel that for the subscription price we subscribers pay for a quarterly magazine, we deserve better than this type of advertising. Instead of the gimmicky ads like this one from emusic, could you keep things to just paper ads in the future? Thanks for the audience, and please keep supporting this great magazine.
