Late in the discussion, we decided that there were some obvious
successful possibilities.
Times Select: They now charge a $50/yr fixed subscription fee. I bet
they'd do far better having you subscribe to a 5 cent variable
subscription rate, capped at $50/yr. Then folks who only read op-ed
pieces, say, would pay maybe $1-$2 a month. This is win-win because
Times gets lots more subscribers, and the subscribers get a pay as
you use, capped version.
We found a few others, but I forget what they were...
-- Owen
On May 23, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> Good question and one that there doesn't seem to be a whole load of
> consensus on. Wikipedia (fount of all knowledge) suggests that the
> "traditional granularity" is one cent. And therein lies the
> problem: even
> asking myself the question "is this worth one cent?" has used up
> more than
> one cent's worth of my time (you can probably work out my day rate
> from that
> :-)
>
> Robert
>
> On 5/23/07, Tom Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> But how small does it have to be to be "micro"?
>>
>> I've bought stuff for less than $1 online, in fact I just did so
>> today.
>> Yeah, it's not fractions of a cent, but a helluvalot cheaper than
>> a gallon
>> of gas (which, I'm told, is about $8 in the UK. Stop your whining,
>> gringos).
>>
>> -T
>>
>>
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