G-BLEW wrote:If we offered a print subscription that was bought by say 5,000 people the price would probably be between £35 - £45 a year. If we launched and only 500 people were prepared to pay for a printed issue, we would have to charge significantly more.
Thanks for openness and answering so well
So... (you'll be sorry you responded to this...)
If you were to sign people up to a 'variable' cost, between 35 and 100/year as a function of the number you managed to attract (and I have not a clue what the 'old' subscriber numbers were), charged us all 100/year (or 10/mth) initially and then (assuming things went well) charged us less the year (month) thereafter etc... you could shift the risk of not getting enough subscribers over to those subscribers who *do* want a paper copy?
Since we would all gain from increased circulation numbers you'd also get a brigade of salesmen working on your behalf. We wouldn't expect you to run it at zero profit, but as we are taking part of your business risk, we'd expect you to reflect that in the final cost to us.
In the interest of transparency you should then share some broad numbers with us so we feel that you are not ripping us off.
And damn those Norwegian forests...
Of course, I have no idea whether this would get traction. But if you wanted to try it for a month or so... I'll buy you some avgas
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