Three newsletters for the price of 1.5: Independent journalists experiment with a bundle

One of the problems with the recent boom in personal newsletters is that subscription prices add up. Many of them go for somewhere between $5 and $10 per month, with a discount for yearly subscriptions, and supporting your favorite writers gets expensive quickly: One person told The New York Times last year that she paid about $600 annually for 11 newsletter subscriptions; another had annual subscription costs of $3,000.

That’s an amount that few people are willing to pay. There are some initiatives that do things differently...