James Scheinblum and others are raising the perfectly good question: Shouldn’t Salon Premium subscribers get a discount on their annual blog fee?
Short answer is, we want to do something like this and are considering it. But both Salon Premium ($30 a year) and Salon blogs ($39.95 a year for hosting and software updates) are annual services that have been priced at the low end to cover costs and provide modest profit margins for the companies involved (Salon for Salon Premium, Salon and UserLand for Salon blogs). We think both services are reasonable deals. We’d still like to show our Premium subscribers some thanks, though. But we have one whole set of software pieces sitting at www.salon.com that manages Premium subscriptions, and another at blogs.salon.com that plugs into UserLand, and its storefront for software sales. We could have spent weeks or months trying to tie these together before launching this project. Instead, we wanted to get the doors open now.
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