The status of the subscription experiment [LWN.net]

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 2, 2002 18:19 UTC (Wed) by Manny_Calavera (guest, #2846)
Parent article: The status of the subscription experiment

I'm from Europe, many people I know will definitly subscribe as soon as it is possible to pay by standing order.
Hint: Don't underestimate the European market - many linux geeks out there :)

see you,
Manny

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The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 2, 2002 18:57 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (5 responses)

Trust me, we don't underestimate that market. The stats from our account signup form show: UK 9%, DE 7%, NL 3.6%, FR 2.7% SE 2.5% DK 1.7% IT 1.6% FI 1.5% NO 1.5% CH 1.4% BE 1.1% ES 1.0% AT 0.9% PL 0.7% IE 0.5% etc. All told it adds up to a substantial fraction of our readership. We want your money too :) An easier method for Europeans without credit cards is high on our list.

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 2, 2002 22:17 UTC (Wed) by leonid (guest, #4891) [Link] (2 responses)

And I am the only one from CY :)

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 4, 2002 6:23 UTC (Fri) by kostas (guest, #5805) [Link]

No, you are not :)

stable url of [stale free] bigpage==?

Posted Oct 13, 2002 11:41 UTC (Sun) by jidanni (guest, #6524) [Link]

I need an unchanging URL of the week old free bigpage edition that doesn't change so I can tell WWWOFFLE to get it every week for me. jidanni@dman.ddts.net

How many from AU??

Posted Oct 3, 2002 1:54 UTC (Thu) by goonie (guest, #4252) [Link] (1 responses)

I know there's at least one :)

How many from AU??

Posted Oct 3, 2002 2:30 UTC (Thu) by showell (guest, #2929) [Link]

Make that at least 2 from AU.

I also read from work during my lunch break and my company is not about to change from its comfy MS position. So even though this laptop has Linux on it I don't want to have to reboot just to read LWN.

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 5:45 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]

The best way to pay without credit card is PayPal. Open a PayPal account and skip the forms where they want you to add a credit card. Now transfer money from your bank to your Paypal account. A few days leter it appears on your PayPal account and you can pay your LWN subscription.

The only problem is that unless you add a credit card you have a $1000 spending limit. I send an e-mail to PayPal explaining that most people i Europe don't have a credit card and that I had no plans to get one for PayPal, after all I was using Paypal to avoid a credit card. Two hours later I got a reply that they had removed the limit.

Daniel