Burning the Midnight Oil for Breaking the Silicon Cage
Some time ago, I asked the question, What Can Newspaper Reporting Learn from Yuricon?. Now I turn the question on its head to ask what Yuricon can learn from Yuricon.
This is set up by Erica Friedman (@Yuricon on Twitter), posing a hypothetical at the Yuricon blog … would they pay upfront:
- $50 for a 5 issue subscription to a 200 page per issue manga (graphic novel)
- $60 for 4 issues of a 300 page per issue manga
- $75 for 3 issues of a 450 page per issue manga
For several days, until I put ChrisCook and Erica’s “5 things Niche Companies Do Right”, I was in this “modern meaning of the term ‘subscription'” mode of thinking. But then I made a wisecrack, and it got me thinking of an older meaning of the term “subscription”, and what might be termed a “Hero Model of Publishing”.