| |||||||||||||
subscribtion level distributionsubscribtion level distributionPosted Mar 6, 2003 20:20 UTC (Thu) by TheManInBlack (guest, #8154)In reply to: subscribtion level distribution by cdamian Parent article: A subscription pricing change I think the choice of subscription level depends as much on what you name it as how much it costs. I signed up for the "professional hacker" level because that's what I am. If you had a $5 level called "average hacker", and called the 10$ level "professional hacker". (With "project leader" somewhere above that) I would have signed up for $10/mn instead. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for cutting a break for students or those of us who are employmentally challenged. But if you have a job as a developer, $10/mn isn't a lot of money. I spend more on coffee every day then I do on my monthly subscription. It's kinda like going to a museum and putting $5 in the box because that's the "suggested donation". If the "suggested donation" were $10 it wouldn't change how often I went. I'd just pay the $10 and not worry about it.
(Log in to post comments)
subscribtion level distribution Posted Mar 13, 2003 17:45 UTC (Thu) by ateras (guest, #10113) [Link] Sure, the naming matters and setting one amount as the default matters even more. You're right that $10 is not a lot of money for a well-paid developer. However, $5/month or $54/year is better in line with a subscription price to a print magazine, like Linux Journal. Therefore I think it's a good level.(Yes, LJ is monthly and LWN is weekly, but one LWN issue is shorter. In the print world it's just more economical to publish in thicker volumes than mail a copy every week.)
|
|||||||||||||