Chapter three · The Long Bloom Retention Field Notes
Fernlight Reader  /  Q4 2024 Reading Report
The finding

Subscribers don’t churn — they fade, quietly, over eleven soft weeks.

Weekly reading minutes per subscriber, from signup
Stayed · n = 8,412 Faded · n = 3,197
120 90 60 30 10 0 min Week 5 · the reading habit sets Week 8 · last open, on average W1 W3 W5 W7 W9 W11 W13
Fading readers taper for eleven weeks before we ever see a cancel. There is a long, quiet window in which a nudge still lands like an invitation, not a plea.
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