Absolute Mystery


Leafing through the latest edition of The Absolute Sound tonight, I was surprised to see Robert Harley's half-page plug for Jonathan Valin's old out of print mystery novels, apparently now being revived for sale on Amazon's Kindle website. The plug does not appear to be a paid advertisement for Mr Valin's books. Rather, its just another article for the TAS readership to pore over. This strikes me as inappropriate and frankly unprofessional. Am I wrong?
psag

Showing 2 responses by rodman99999

Complain to the magazine's Editor-In-Chief......Oh wait; it
was his column. Maybe they'll give you a refund on the retail
purchase price, based on the value of half a page of print.
Let's see: $6.99/176 pages= 3.97 cents. That divided by 1/2
page would make the refund almost two whole cents. Go for
it(just my two cents worth)!
"No one reads TAS", BUT- Stereo Review, Audio,
Sensible Sound & High Fidelity have all folded, yet TAS
still remains(in print & on-line). They must be running off
someone's trust fund, if there are no subscribers or news
stand purchasers. Perhaps JV has promised royalties, off his
book sales, so they can stay in print?