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LWN Update

Posted Feb 27, 2003 18:15 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
Parent article: LWN Update

I'm curious as to the distribution of subscribers over the different subscription prices. It's possible that there are enough subscribers who would be willing to pay more that you could get significantly more money just by offering more expensive subscriptions.

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Subscription levels

Posted Feb 27, 2003 18:24 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

376 "starving hacker," 1912 "professional hacker," and 220 "project leader." The bulk of people are clearly going with the mid-range subscription. People occasionally comment that the subscriptions are expensive; I would really like to find a way to make them cheaper, someday.

Subscription levels; per country ?

Posted Mar 3, 2003 16:20 UTC (Mon) by guybar (guest, #798) [Link]

perhaps offer different subscribtion rate per country (ip domain ?);

an north-american worker earns, on average, 20 times as much as, say, a thai worker.

but note, there are many more third- and second-worlders.

Of course this opens the way to scams, but I believe all of your on-line
subscribtion buisness is trust-based anyway.