Subscription and Free

Subscription and Free

Posted Aug 1, 2002 18:44 UTC (Thu) by scripter (subscriber, #2654)
Parent article: Is it really The End?

1. I don't mind paying a subscription fee each month for your quality editorials. The value is in your quality writing and summarizing.

2. I read LWN from a variety of locations. Logging in would be a bit inconvenient, but I could handle it.

3. The one-week delay for non-subscribers sounds extremely reasonable. I also agree with the previous comment about the power of habit -- let people read on Thursdays. A delay of anything other than a multiple of seven days would be counter-productive.

4. Once a month, make an issue free. Make it the first Thursday of each month. Newcomers will get to sample the content while it is "fresh", and then they will be more likely to subscribe.

5. Maybe the fund drive has merit. Stop producing LWN until neccessary funds are available. Normally I *HATE* fund drives. But I do contribute to my local radio station. During the fund drives, I tune to a different radio station.

6. Doing a giant monthly edition is a *TERRIBLE* idea. I like weekly editions. Monthly news it too much out-of-date. LWN is known as *weekly* news, not Linux-Monthly-News. I would drop LWN if it became a monthly publication.

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