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Also, individuals paying for a subscription have no effect on the editorial line of a given newspaper. There's been a case recently in France where a billionair

Also, individuals paying for a subscription have no effect on the editorial line of a given newspaper. There's been a case recently in France where a billionaire was involved in the infamous Paradise Papers. Some newspaper wrote a lengthy piece about it and it turns out said billionaire pulled 600.000 euros of ads from the outlet a few weeks later. Totally coincidental of course :) That cannot really happen with actual subscribers. They can pull their subscription en masse if the editorial line doesn't please them, but they cannot endanger the livelihood of the newspaper as one fell swoop like that.

combatentropy 9y ago
37Signals said the same thing about applications. Better to have 10,000 users at $30 per month than 100 at $3,000 per month. If a single customer is paying a lot, then you are tempted to make whatever changes they ask for to your application, and it's harder to stand up against featuritis or illogical design.
- skinnymuch 9y ago
  Basecamp example is good but they do veer a bit away in terms of pricing. The price is too low still for any customer to have pull, but at $100/month, it also leaves out a lot of people. Not sure if there's a point in any of this. I guess I'm just adding on. Since the saying still works if $30 or $100 a month.