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I know this is going to be a SUPER unpopular suggestion.
But if people like Brawna so much, maybe it’s time to set up a subscription service to have the website break even and pay for itself?
I know, I know, “WHAT SUBSCRIPTIONS!?” But really, if it’s getting to the point that Lingster is having a headache keeping it running, well… the consumers of the website should contribute -something- to keep it going.
The problem with that is the content of the website is produced by the community… (Although Lingster does have a couple stories, which are quite great by the way!) Many of the “consumers” are indeed contributing something, that being the very content hosted 😛 (well, then again, with 50k visitors a day, the authors are an extreme minority)
There’s little to no reason to submit stories to a site if the site is charging people for a subscription using their own content. Of course, it’d obviously be unreasonable to expect the current authors to get paid for many logistical reasons.
One solution would be for authors on the site to be granted a free subscription… but that raises a few issues of its own. For example, it could encourage low-quality content that’s quickly whipped up simply to get a free subscription. Alternatively, people might resort to stealing other stories wholesale from sites such as deviantart, saradas, the valkyrie and mg-sg pbworks. On that note, if you put up a subscription fee to brawna, people will simply flock to those other sites I’ve named.
Ultimately, the only way (that I can see) to turn a site like brawna into a profitable subscription service would be for it to host exclusive stories – and for Lingster to pay the authors that he handpicks for the site. Honestly, that sounds like far more work, and I seriously wonder if people would even bother subscribing at all. Then again, maybe it’s an untapped market.
Long story short, turning a site like Brawna into a subscription site raises a large slew of issues. I do wonder if it’s possible for Lingster to run ads that get through adblock (if that’s possible) in order to help offset the costs… That sounds like an ideal solution to me.
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