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Re:Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to p... by digitalni on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:36AM (#16509669)
How do you know that "a lot of people" are paying to read stratechery.com? Any sources to back this claim?
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Re:Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to p... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:42AM (#16509713)
> How do you know that "a lot of people" are paying to read stratechery.com

"Ben Thompson has several thousand readers who are happy to pay him $100 a year for his excellent Stratechery newsletter" [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/04/why-newspaper-subscription...

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Re:Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to p... by lawrencewu on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:43AM (#16509715)
He makes $200k / year from his newsletter: http://www.niemanlab.org/reading/ben-thompsons-stratechery-i...
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Re:Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to p... by vasilipupkin on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:06AM (#16509853)
wow, that seems really not much for a publication focused on business strategy.
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Re:Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to p... by scarface74 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:18PM (#16513076)
That was a few years ago when he said he had 2000 subscribers. He doesn't say how many he has now.
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