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On the future of LWNOn the future of LWNPosted Jul 26, 2002 20:07 UTC (Fri) by heunique (guest, #728)Parent article: On the future of LWN OK, I did some math... If you'll charge $6 per month (~$1.5 for a week) - a subsription base of 4000 people should make LWN alive.. Of course - if someone wants to subscribe for 6 month, or 12 months in advance - then price should go down a bit... As for subscription billing - I suugest worldpay.co.uk - they have the infrastructure for a monthly charging credit cards - transgaming is using them and I didn't hear any complains from them. PayPal won't help much here unless for donation activities. Hope this helps, I'll be glad to help with any planning needed. Hetz Ben Hamo
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On the future of LWN Posted Jul 26, 2002 21:46 UTC (Fri) by jcurious (guest, #2845) [Link] Actualy there are various content sites like fark.com's totalfark which utilize paypal's subscription system and it seems to work for them just fine?ohh.. that brings up an intresting thought.. perhaps have daily be subscription and the weekly free? the way totalfark works is that totalfark is anything and everything and fark.com just puts up the stuff deemed "good". They charge $5/month I think it is for totalfark.com
On the future of LWN Posted Jul 28, 2002 14:00 UTC (Sun) by origz (guest, #1985) [Link] The subscription is a good idea, but I think the weekly edition should be subscription. Daily stuff you can get for free on any site - Linuxtoday, Linux daily news, whatever. The weekly edition is where the good stuff is.
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