top | item 33881133 (no title) he_is_legend | 3 years ago "Buys out" and "owns" apparently now mean the same as "rent for a small period of time" ... discuss order hn newest vineyardmike|3 years ago It’s common to say buying ad space. You have probably regularly heard an advertiser “buying a full page”. No one’s ever “bought” the whole thing, so the confusing language of saying “buy” in this context never came up before. shadowofneptune|3 years ago It's the physical bits of page space in reader's hands, in this case. The usage is pretty common for print ads.
vineyardmike|3 years ago It’s common to say buying ad space. You have probably regularly heard an advertiser “buying a full page”. No one’s ever “bought” the whole thing, so the confusing language of saying “buy” in this context never came up before.
shadowofneptune|3 years ago It's the physical bits of page space in reader's hands, in this case. The usage is pretty common for print ads.
vineyardmike|3 years ago
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