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Happy birthday! I wonder what the economics of a publication like this are. Are reader numbers and ad prices still good enough? I guess we’ll never get back to
by mprev 8y ago
Happy birthday! I wonder what the economics of a publication like this are. Are reader numbers and ad prices still good enough?
I guess we’ll never get back to the days of Amiga Format’s crazy high reader numbers but I’m hopeful that there’s room for a magazine resurgence.
Paying for content that doesn’t track you or have intrusive ads ... where you’re less likely to find content marketing ... really appeals to me. I greatly value my Economist subscription.
- pjmlp 8y agoIt is kind of hard I guess. I stop subscribing for a couple of years, specially after focusing again on Windows. I decided to re-activate my subscription when they started to reach out to old subscribers trying to rescue the magazine.
- jolmg 8y ago> I wonder what the economics of a publication like this are. Are reader numbers and ad prices still good enough? They were in very bad shape just a little over a year ago. They had decided to cease publication, but got rescued by the parent company of Private Internet Access: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15826220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15826220 I wonder if they've made changes since then and if those changes have helped increase profits.
- tyfon 8y agoI subscribed to them since the mid 90s but stopped once they went digital only. Not sure how many they lost doing that but for me at least having it on paper was the one thing that made it valuable to me as a subscription. High quality articles on different subjects regarding linux have been available online for free for quite a while.