[true_religion]

I'm not sure what you mean by "doesn't work".

Subscription payments can be extremely profitable, leading the the continued existence and even expansion of the site. The only downside is that only people who subscribe can see the majority of the content.

Ads merely mean that more people can access the same information, including people who could have never or would have never paid for it.

Subscriptions are merely less egalitarian.

[tehlike]

hey - sorry, didn't see the message before.

subscriptions today are per site. you have to maintain multiple subscriptions. Many people dislikes that. I wouldn't hesitate a second to subscribe if there was something that centralizes the subscription (like 10$ for month worth of content, split among publishers based on how much time i spend and what the value of content is).