Comments on: Can Paste’s success with reader donations be duplicated? http://bloggasm.com/can-pastes-success-with-reader-donations-be-duplicated Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Natalia Real http://bloggasm.com/can-pastes-success-with-reader-donations-be-duplicated/comment-page-1#comment-83769 Natalia Real Thu, 28 May 2009 16:32:26 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2819#comment-83769 Bitch Magazine is another great example of this: http://bitchmagazine.org/. Bitch Magazine is another great example of this: http://bitchmagazine.org/.

]]> By: Gary Scott http://bloggasm.com/can-pastes-success-with-reader-donations-be-duplicated/comment-page-1#comment-83728 Gary Scott Tue, 26 May 2009 19:54:03 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2819#comment-83728 Newspapers and mags already come back to readers, time and time again, with their hands outstretched when them to renew their subscriptions. The Paste approach seems like a tiered subscription masked as charity. Perhaps that could work for smaller, specialty publications. But general-interest newspapers and magazines get most of their money from ads, not from subscriptions. Asking some readers to pay more would probably do little to help their bottom lines. Of course they could go the NPR/nonprofit route and give up the ads in favor regular fund-raising drives. Aside from some chatter in San Francisco, is any paper/mag seriously considering that? Newspapers and mags already come back to readers, time and time again, with their hands outstretched when them to renew their subscriptions. The Paste approach seems like a tiered subscription masked as charity. Perhaps that could work for smaller, specialty publications. But general-interest newspapers and magazines get most of their money from ads, not from subscriptions. Asking some readers to pay more would probably do little to help their bottom lines. Of course they could go the NPR/nonprofit route and give up the ads in favor regular fund-raising drives. Aside from some chatter in San Francisco, is any paper/mag seriously considering that?

]]> By: Sampad Swain http://bloggasm.com/can-pastes-success-with-reader-donations-be-duplicated/comment-page-1#comment-83717 Sampad Swain Tue, 26 May 2009 03:35:22 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2819#comment-83717 Thanks Simon for sharing this piece of info with me. Much appreciate :) --- @Sampad Thanks Simon for sharing this piece of info with me.

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