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$2 an article would be ludicrous, when you can get the dead-tree version of the whole paper delivered to your doorstep for a dollar a day.

• x0x0 11y ago
  You conflate a subscriber who pays $450/year with a person buying a one-off with no further obligation. A profitable business will charge them wildly different unit prices. Much like itunes will sell you a song for $1.29 each and spotify will charge you $5/mo for unlimited music. I'd charge $5+ for the article. Again, you also have to avoid cannibalizing subscription revenue.
  • douche 11y ago
    It still doesn't really make any sense. I bought the Grantland Quarterly (RIP, Grantland), for $20, and it's a hard-bound book with ~35 articles in it. $.57 per article, and that's high-quality, longform pieces. $5 will almost buy a paperback book of several hundred pages that will keep you occupied for at least a day or two. Text is cheap
    • x0x0 11y ago
      Not everyone can be a dilettante's hobby project financially supported by espn. You don't think Grantland actually made money do you?