You write: ‘We are running another huge sale on paid subscriptions, in the hope of including all of you among the privileged class of readers able to get past our paywall. There really isn’t much reason to stay on as a free subscriber - everything that matters is below the fold, and the cost of getting there is scarcely more than a micropayment. Upgrade now, while the offer is still on!’
If ‘everything that matters’ is behind the paywall, then the free layer is being explicitly framed as secondary. That does not make it worthless, but it does alter its status. It becomes harder to know whether one is being invited to read it or simply to pass through it.
this is truly incredible work - thank you
Nothing to say, so I guess I'll say it.
This is lovely
This is an astonishing work of vivid imagination, Justin. I am gobsmacked.
what is your method to translate the manuscript? maybe you explained elsewhere but i cant find it...
Pure intuition, for better or worse!
wait, i love that ! (:
You write: ‘We are running another huge sale on paid subscriptions, in the hope of including all of you among the privileged class of readers able to get past our paywall. There really isn’t much reason to stay on as a free subscriber - everything that matters is below the fold, and the cost of getting there is scarcely more than a micropayment. Upgrade now, while the offer is still on!’
If ‘everything that matters’ is behind the paywall, then the free layer is being explicitly framed as secondary. That does not make it worthless, but it does alter its status. It becomes harder to know whether one is being invited to read it or simply to pass through it.
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