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Subscription Media
Web2 content pricing is so broken: a subscription to 70 million songs costs the same amount as a subscription to one newsletter.
descriptiontwitter.coma fascinating distinction between subscriptions (legacy media) & membership (creators) happening in real time—
subscriptions: best content is paywalled because content is the only value
membership: best content is free because the creator and the community is the value.
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How Much Are We Paying for Our Subscription Services? A Lot (Published 2020)
Brian X. Chennytimes.com
And you have to wrestle with the paywall and its very unfortunate trade-off. You want to share your work with the widest audience possible. But to any publication that’s too small for ads, free readers are simply not that valuable. For these reasons, I’ve always struggled with the paywall. Asking people to pay for writing is not a great way to make... See more