WH904,
And many readers just vote with their feet - and their wallets.
If a publishers are not in touch with (or have lost touch with) their target markets then they have only themselves to blame.
One cannot expect the readership to regularly take up quill and parchment to tell one what's wrong with the product. That's just plain laziness.
As for advertising, lowering ad space rates and increasing the volume and prominence of ads between the covers to compensate for falling turnover is a slippery slope indeed - as many publishers have discovered.
I'm sorry I can't contribute more positively to this discussion, but for my part, I simply voted with my feet along the lines that Planemike mentioned in his post.
Cheers.