This is The End: Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers

As you know from our weekly Cover Battle feature (coming later today), FishbowlNY loves magazine covers. So we’re not exactly thrilled to learn that Time Inc. has started selling ad space on the fronts of Time and Sports Illustrated. You can go ahead and mark May 22, 2014, as the day magazine covers died.

Ad Age explains the placement of the ads:

For now the area devoted to the ads is very small: Subscribers may notice a Verizon logo in the mailing label area, next to the words ‘For Best Results Use Verizon’ and a page number for a traditional ad.

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