I agree, long time prime user, and have gotten some friends to join. Also donated a while ago. It’s dirt cheap for the quality of the issues. If you read one article online a month, it’s 2$ per article you give them and get all the digital editions as a bonus
If you really do read one article per month, $2 is nowhere close to being dirt cheap. Especially if you look at how many articles you read on average per month.
That's going to differ from person to person and financial situation to financial situation.
Come to think of it, I'd actually be interested in a way to analyze my browsing history to tell me which sites I visit most. With pie charts and all. So I can be told which sites I apparently visit/read a lot. I bet I'll be surprised about a thing or two.
Given the quality and length of Nautilus' articles, $2 is a pretty good exchange for me, also 1 per month is the lowest baseline. Only in HN we probably see 3-4 of them per month, at the very least, but may not read all of them.
Speaking as a subscriber to Nautilus who also donated subscriptions to local schools: Subscribing to Nautilus is great but doesn't solve these problems for other publications. I get to my news sources primarily through HN. So for example I read about one or two articles from the Guardian and NYT because of that. I appreciate their great work, but I'm not going to get a full subscription from those magazines as well. I'd love to give back proportionally to what I consume, but don't know how.
