The online publication industry, as a whole, is struggling, with challenges coming from multiple directions. Thanks to the support of all of you, our readers, LWN would appear to be doing better than most. But the world has changed around us and, in particular, prices have changed considerably. By now, you probably know where this is going: subscription prices at LWN will be increasing as of September 15.

We adopted the subscription model in late 2002; it was one of the best decisions we have ever made. This model makes us independent of the volatile (and surveillance-driven) advertising market and aligns our interests with those of our readers. But it does depend on support from those readers; if you have not yet subscribed to LWN, please consider doing so now — our subscribers are the only reason we continue to exist.

We have only increased prices twice in the 24 years since adopting this model; the last increase was in early 2022, nearly five years ago. That increase helped to keep us on a stable footing, and a lot more besides. We were able to hire Daroc Alden and Joe Brockmeier, and they have greatly increased the depth and range of our coverage. The LWN site has been improved in a number of ways, with features like articles in EPUB format, markdown formatting for comments, the kernel source database, full-text email and RSS feeds, dark-mode support, the public topic list, and more. A lot of effort has also gone into keeping the site alive, responsive, and reader-friendly in the face of escalating scraper attacks.

Since the 2022 price change, according to the undoubtedly reliable numbers from the US government, consumer-price inflation has added up to almost exactly 20%. Some costs (health insurance, naturally) have gone up rather more than that. We will be matching the inflation number, though, and increase prices by approximately 20%; the new monthly prices will be:

Level	Price
Starving hacker	$6.00
Professional hacker	$11.00
Project leader	$19.00
Maniacal supporter	$55.00

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