to be fair, they're not mutually exclusive. It would be interesting to discover the stagnating effects of closing your doors to all but those willing to pay. P

to be fair, they're not mutually exclusive. It would be interesting to discover the stagnating effects of closing your doors to all but those willing to pay. Perhaps naively, I assume the majority of paying customers were dedicated readers before the paywalls went up. How are new users brought into the funnel of such an exclusive system?