this is an interesting case study...I just checked out his profile and under his newsletter announcement there are a lot of people complaining they can't afford $50 a year...i have no idea how can someone not "afford" that for someone's year long work..having to deal with this complaining and whining is what stops most people from launching a paid newsletter...and people almost never open the free newsletters they have subscribed...to change this everyone should start launching a paid newsletter....if no one is paying..this would atleast save writers from wasting time on newsletters that gets read very little even by the ones subscribed..