{"id":1571,"date":"2009-07-16T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/subscription-based-websites-%e2%80%93-appellation-america\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:58:34","slug":"subscription-based-websites-%e2%80%93-appellation-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/subscription-based-websites-%e2%80%93-appellation-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Subscription Based Websites \u2013 Appellation America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard yet, Appellation America has now changed from a free wine and winery information online service to being subscription based. Ow! That hurts and yet I understand. It hurts because I consider it a great resource and a good way to fact check items. As owners of the Wine Trail Traveler website, we do understand the amount of work, time and information that goes into producing a great website. While the subscription rate for Appellation Ameria is a low $4.95 a month. That &#8216;s almost $60 a year. Pay by the year and save a little. Imagine if you have a website drawing 10,000 subscribers, that amount quickly adds up.<\/p>\n<p>My question for you is, would you pay a low monthly rate to have access to a website? Are there others ways besides subscriptions and online distracting ads, to make money with an information-based website?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Subscription Based Websites \u2013 Appellation America\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/subscription-based-websites-%e2%80%93-appellation-america\/\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard yet, Appellation America has now changed from a free wine and winery information online service to being subscription based. Ow! That hurts and yet I understand. It hurts because I consider it a great resource and a good way to fact check items. As owners of the Wine Trail Traveler website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}