Slashdot to Offer Subscriptions for Ad-Free Page Viewing
In a long anticipated development, Slashdot announced a subscription plan for readers who want to view the site without advertisements. The most surprising thing about the plan is that there is no flat fee option. According to the article:
The rates are currently set at $5 per 1000 pages. To put this into perspective, $20 (typical magazine subscription) will be enough pages for 82% of our readers to view Slashdot without ads for a year. Another 15% will need to spend $5 a month to accomplish the same thing. 3% of our readers would need to spend more than $5 a month- but they could choose to see ads on comments and in almost every case, still pay around $5 a month. (As an aside, it's also worth noting that more than half of all comment posters fall into this 3%)