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Hyun Woo Kim's avatar

This is some food for thoughts. In my case, I do not consider the subscription fees to my newsletters to reflect the value of my writing itself. In other words, they are not the prices of my paid-subscribers-only posts. From the way I see it, the fees convey the following message: if you like my work and want to support me financially, I believe this is how much you could afford. I 'sell' patronship, not bodies of text. Accordingly, I do not compare my prices to those of magazines or newspapers at all. We are selling totally different things.

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jesse porter's avatar

I, too, have wrestled with this subject. I prefer free to the minimum, but folks, including myself, tend to consider free to be worthless. So, I took the minimum, but allowed access to nonpaying subscribers. It's too early to gage the results. So far I have no paid subscribers, but I have only published six post so far. I call my posts Toward a Christian Worldview, in which I am trying to gain a worldview that will never be complete, for my premise is that if you are searching for truth you must be willing to scrap whatever conclusions you reach when you find them untenable. So, the best I hope to do is settle on a few more or less permanent truths to keep yourself on track.

I suspect, judging from successful substacks, that folks like narrower views that are presented as concrete. That is what I hope to avoid, so I have to be resigned to never being successful. Certainty has gotten Christianity to the splintered shape we have been in for almost our whole existence.

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