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> Of all these writers I subscribe to for free: would I be willing to pay a single price for all of them together? That might be worth $10 a month Fair enough,
by gnicholas 3y ago
> Of all these writers I subscribe to for free: would I be willing to pay a single price for all of them together? That might be worth $10 a month
Fair enough, but a magazine is largely filled with advertisements, which is where much/most of the revenue comes from. I like that Substack does not have ads like this.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThere are magazines with no ads, like Consumer Reports and Cook's Illustrated in its early days.
- gnicholas 3y agoSure, but that's not exactly comparable to most Substacks (at least the popular ones).
- freddie_mercury 3y agoConsumer Reports is able to do that because it makes $260 million a year from subscribers. The only magazines in the world with more subscribers ADAC Motowelt in Germany and AARP and Costco's magazines in the US. They have a scale that makes it possible to forgo advertising that isn't really applicable to other magazines.
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