"Premium" service won't work (was: Question for Clay and others)

[ThosStew@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/5/2001 12:26:42 PM, deafbox@hotmail.com writes:

>In my opinion, Web publications will not survive on the model
>of charging for premium service. Salon is now trying this,
>practically begging its readers to pay up for a premium
>service that exclusively serves some of its juicier articles
>and graphics.


Brill's Content is moving from bi-monthly to quarterly (in $ trouble) and is 
making the following offer: Keep a subscription for the same period of time 
and we'll throw in, absolutely free, access to their online site (inside.com? 
I forget), which otherwise costs $4 a month or thereabouts; or have a 
subscription that runs for the same number of issues you oirginally 
subscribed for, to be delivered over a longer period of time.

The former was th4e default setting--do nothing that's the option you get. I 
opted for the hard copy, same number of issues. The negative option skews 
things, of course--but it will be very interesting to se--or would be, if 
anyone ever gets to see it outside Brill's offices--which people go for.

Tom