I haven't signed up yet. I may. I have read the occasional article. It's a pain that I no longer can. That's life.
I went to look. Never really was a LL fan. First thing I saw was a teaser paragraph or two, cut off with a "sign up or go away" message.
I went away. And in under a minute, found the complete article and several others on the author\u2019s web site.
This makes the whole fee-based idea EXTRA bad. No one is going to be happy paying for material that the author of that material gives a way elsewhere.
I\u2019m sure the author has some sort of contract with LL and is happy with the deal, but no one else is going to be. People will feel swindled. The flip side of that coin is if they are also charging to read articles the author provides free of charge and the author doesn\u2019t know. That would be even worse.
There is no way to win with this. The unwritten laws of the internet say you don\u2019t charge for information. You can however, put a bunch of free articles into a book and then sell the book. No one has a problem with that. People don\u2019t look at that as paying for the information, but rather, paying for the convenient formatting.
David Kachel
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