LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors

Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by from on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:01AM (#23924065)

Many VPS providers are offering similar terms. DigitalOcean has its Write for DOnations program (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digit...) which pays $300 for a new tutorial, for instance. I'd imagine the cost must pay itself off, I've seen many people sign up for DigitalOcean because they wanted to follow one of the tutorials (even though you don't really need DO to follow them).

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by nindalf on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:03AM (#23924879)

I don’t know if it pays for itself but I can say that my decision to be a customer for the last 4 years was probably influenced by the goodwill generated by those tutorials.

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by cosmodisk on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:20AM (#23925283)

I've seen some very successful consultancies going with this tactic as well. You go on their website and it's not just contact us page but a plethora of articles on how to do things.

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by karterk on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:33AM (#23924203)

DigitalOcean started this trend but this has now become a very crowded space with other hosting providers like Linode etc. using the same strategy.

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Re:LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors by hboon on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:10AM (#23925226)

If you are referring to writing useful articles (and not referring to paying for articles), Slicehost and Linode definitely started this way earlier than DigitalOcean.

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