[fauxreb]

As someone whose main career is in editorial and commercial photography, I ask this all the time.

Many of my clients advertise in glossy magazines and many of the stories I shoot go into limited-run luxury fashion magazines that sell in bookshops for >€30.

Though the industry has been changing for a long time, I knew things were different and that the cynicism had become unsustainable when very few people actually read / bought / subscribed to the magazines for which we worked. Few people believed in the product enough to support its ideal form.

Also, 600px-wide jpegs in an endless flow destroyed photography, but whatever.