Re:The subscription-pocalypse
by NeedMoreTea on Monday January 28, 2019 @08:04AM
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* you commit to writing one interesting piece a day. I pay you a $1 a year.
One a day? Nothing researched or investigative then.
For $1 a year? Only the worst of the "anything for a click" would seem likely to survive that model.
Re:The subscription-pocalypse
by notyourday on Monday January 28, 2019 @08:17AM
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Yes. You have 300k readers? Hello $300k. You have a million readers? Hello, a million a year! Half of the United States reads you? Well, hello 160 million.
You have 30 readers total? Well, you should probably get a job washing gas station floors - because your writing is just not that good.
And that's the reason the industry is dead -- the model is unsustainable.
Here's what I'm willing to do:
* you commit to writing one interesting piece a day. I pay you a $1 a year.
I will probably be willing to do it for a hundred authors. I figure that's like 20 cappuccinos a year. I will probably be willing to do the same for 100 video producers ( i like cooking videos, video reviews of products and photography/video videos ) and probably a few other things. But there's no way I'm paying for Philadelphia Inquirer -- Will and Trudy spew the same kind of content I can read in the Opinion section of New York Times or SFC and I am not paying for it twice.