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$120/yr for recycled content from HN/other sites seems very pricey...do you think you are really creating more value than the Wall Street Journal that costs $11

• bearwithclaws 16y ago
  We couldn't charge any lower than that. If you do the math, we actually don't make any money from the print subscription plan.
• robryan 16y ago
  I don't think that is a valid comparison, doesn't take into account scale where the marginal cost is very small. It's not uncommon to see $20+ niche magazines in comparison to something like wired which is far cheaper but arguably is creating the same value.
• charlief 16y ago
  As a pretty active Hacker News member, I think HM can be worth $120/yr. Here's my particular case. I've been a subscriber since the third issue and 90% of the magazine content I've seen on HN, but the presentation and centralization of the best is of wonderful value. They really do a nice job on the design front. The issues also function like a library of cool articles you can show to a friend or colleague and say "Here's HN in a box, at least one particular filtering of it." I have brought at least a couple contributors to Hacker News, just because they read through an issue of Hacker Monthly.
• dwwoelfel 16y ago
  Price and value are not the same thing. Google, for instance, charges me $0 to use gmail. Whenever you hear the word value, you should ask yourself, "of value for what, and to whom?" The hedge fund manager who reads the WSJ may get millions of dollars worth of value out of it. The business school student may only get the $199/yr he pays.
• masmullin 16y ago
  Yes, it's absolutely worth it.