Sure, that makes sense, I was just surprised because it didn’t seem relevant to the points raised in this article, which I would argue are more important
(I think knowing whether people still value me spending time writing vs where I should spend the time elsewhere is more useful than a wider audience having access to my EA-themed baby outfit roundup)
You know how many people value your paywalled content at your subscription price, but you don’t know how many people would value it at a lower amount.
Thus, the knowledge you get from subscription data almost certainly understates the total net value that would be unlocked for a fixed amount of work if your writing were free. (That’s not to suggest that you should feel any obligation to share your baby outfit insights with the world for free.)
That’s much less of a drawback where each marginal unit of production incurs a substantial resource cost.
Sure, that makes sense, I was just surprised because it didn’t seem relevant to the points raised in this article, which I would argue are more important
(I think knowing whether people still value me spending time writing vs where I should spend the time elsewhere is more useful than a wider audience having access to my EA-themed baby outfit roundup)
You know how many people value your paywalled content at your subscription price, but you don’t know how many people would value it at a lower amount.
Thus, the knowledge you get from subscription data almost certainly understates the total net value that would be unlocked for a fixed amount of work if your writing were free. (That’s not to suggest that you should feel any obligation to share your baby outfit insights with the world for free.)
That’s much less of a drawback where each marginal unit of production incurs a substantial resource cost.