Obama freaking out about Andrew Sullivan going behind a paywall: “Did Sully just throw the entire Dish away?”
— delrayser (@delrayser) January 2, 2013
Heh. But it’s not a paywall. To reiterate: No one coming to the Dish home-page will ever be stopped. All links to individual posts will be outside the meter and as free after we launch as they are now. The only meter arrives at the “Read On” posts, whose full text you have to be a member to read. Even non-members will be able to read a certain number of “Read On” posts a month, free and in full. Dish alum Zack reiterates something else for us:
Key point of clarification on @sullydish‘s new model: RSS subscription is still completely free andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2013/01/dish-i…
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) January 2, 2013
The Dish’s new biz model: NYTimes-esque freemium meter, minus ads, plus Radioheadesque pay-what-u-want option andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2013/01/a-decl… …
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) January 2, 2013
Hm. Looking deeper into @sullydish‘s proposal. Interesting.Not sure how much $ he’ll get in the long run from the lack of paywall.
— Alan DeHaan (@Aulayan) January 2, 2013
Two must-read political blogs launched in 2000 – @sullydish and @joshtpm. As of today, they’re both independent, web-based publications.
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) January 2, 2013
I’ll sign up for @sullydish Premium and so should you, but only after you join @tpmprime
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 2, 2013
Subscribe to TPM Prime here. My full pitch for Josh’s new venture here.
I just put down $19.99 for subscription to @sullydish. Will demand refund if he changes his mind about the Iraq war again.
— Robert Wright (@robertwrighter) January 2, 2013
I am totally happy to give @sullydish my money, and have done so.andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2013/01/a-decl… But I will demand more Watership Down coverage.
— hodgman (@hodgman) January 2, 2013
Yeah, so, nothing Andrew Sullivan says is worth $20/year imho.
— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) January 2, 2013
I do not know what to say about @sullydish retweeting my snark about him. Perhaps I’ll need to buy a subscription in guilt?
— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) January 2, 2013
Is it worth $19.99 to get a RT from @sullydish to his 73k followers. I mean to subscribe to his blog?
— Ed DeRosa (@EJXD2) January 2, 2013
The site that @sullydish is taking independent is more reader-driven than it looks. No comments, but there’s a huge flow of stuff via email.
— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) January 2, 2013
I knew @sullydish had a staff, but seven people?blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2… I gotta get me some minions…
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) January 2, 2013
So @sullydish is following the @glennbeck model, right? A small, intense niche audience willing to pay a lot to consume his product?
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) January 2, 2013
Gut take on @sullydish model is mostly positive, save for the lack of ads. Don’t think cleaner interface is worth tradeoff.
— danprimack (@danprimack) January 2, 2013
I really hope The Dish makes it work! They were always great for readers, bad for advertisers. Might as well formalize that!
— Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) January 2, 2013
Will now start referring to Feb. 1 as the “Sully Cliff” thebea.st/WkUoeJ
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 2, 2013
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