Cheers to that guy or gal who invented that thing

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Cheers to that guy or gal who invented that thing

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redshirt posted:

It's a good question, who first made a subscription service work for something that used to be a one time charge?

dug up the research on the question lmao, the answer is England's John Minsheu in the 17th century for an 11 language dictionary

basically had a Pateron-esque list of people who subscribed to his dictionary that he printed in each edition, which got your name printed on the list of the next volume that came out

subscriptions also saved it from being some dead project because no individual person wanted to pay for the publication as was the customary practice

here are pictures of the list itself

also as a side note, the next guy who did the subscription model to sell poetry loved the money making aspect and bitching about people who didn't pay in the next volume

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