henry copeland:
New service Beacon sells subs for individual writers, skims 60% pllqt.it/kpdVwC via #stillserfdom @mathewi
Each of the site’s journalists (there are currently about 50) has a page where their content lives, and a discussion forum. When someone subscribes to them for $5 a month, Beacon takes a cut — the amount is in flux, but it is around 60 percent on average — and then the reader gets access to all of the site’s other writers. Some of the proceeds from each subscription also go into a pool that is shared by all of the journalists on the platform.
- gigaom.com