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LWN Update

Posted Feb 27, 2003 8:57 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
Parent article: LWN Update

Don't worry. I paid for a full year when you first opened up for subscription, thinking that even if you went under the next day month, it'd still be money well spent, afterall it's not as if I've not been reading and enjoying LWN for free since issue 1.

As for ways of growing the subscription-base. How manay did you say you need for a reasonable staff and salaries to live from ? 5000 ? Hmm, if the average is $50 this would mean $250K a year, or a little over $20K a month. Sounds in the ballpark ?

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Posted Feb 27, 2003 15:54 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I think under the original pricing structure it was something like 5000 for minimal long term and 7500+ for growth. The main things are trying to increase membership drives.. at this point I would go with the NPR style drive or since I watched it last night UHF :).

Get a LWN coffee cup for a year silver membership ($100)

Get a LWN shirt+coffee cup for a gold membership. ($200)

Get a LWN shirt, coffee cup, mousepad and an ogg recording of Alan Cox singing the Welsh national anthem in Welsh for a platinum membership. ($500)

Get a LWN s+cc+mp+ogg and a signed printout of the 0.1 source code to the kernel by Linus for osmium membership ($1000.)

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Posted Feb 27, 2003 17:13 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

I think this is a pretty cool idea... and I think your subscribers would actually go for some of the premiums (that's what we call them in the pledge drive biz :-) listed.

Hell, you could even get luminaries to send random thank you notes...

Even I finally subscribed. :-)
-- j

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Posted Feb 28, 2003 5:48 UTC (Fri) by virtex (subscriber, #3019) [Link]

That's a pretty sweet idea. Another idea is to negotiate with Linux related businesses to get them to offer discounts to LWN subscribers. This is something Mandrake is doing with their MandrakeClub. For example, as a member, I can get $20 off the price of Win4Lin, $5 off Opera, or 10% off Hancom Office.