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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
But you <are> in the same position as Baen. You are not just an author, but a publisher. A very small one, admittedly, but one just the same. As a publisher, studying what works to see what can be used to build a business is a useful business concept.
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It's that fact that I'm a small publisher that precludes me from taking advantage of a subscription system. The whole point of a subscription is that you pay for an extended period of time to get whatever content you want from a site. With my small collection of books, that subscription could conceivably be used up (everything in my collection downloaded and read) in a month. Then wait another 3-4 months for my next book. That's not a workable model.
Selling individual books or collections is a better model, with other free content (short stories, commentary, etc) to keep people coming between book releases, is a better model for an author/publisher with a day job.
If I gave up the day job and dedicated myself to daily compelling content, or somehow got ahold of a wealth of refreshing content to offer, that would be a time to go subscription. But not before.