I agree. I would imagine this is an idea that is nearly impossible to turn a dime with.
What are your options really? Either charge a monthly fee for a service that your users can find for free elsewhere (either right now, or eventually) or you can slide in ads between the feeds you serve that no one is going to bother to click on anyway.
The big appeal of FeedBurner for most people is their subscriber count monitoring and, unfortunately for them, it's something they don't do a very good job of tracking to begin with.
The other big unspoken aspect of FeedBurner is that those very counts are so easy to manipulate that trusting anyone's numbers is too big of a leap of faith anyway. The whole system is about bunk now.
What are your options really? Either charge a monthly fee for a service that your users can find for free elsewhere (either right now, or eventually) or you can slide in ads between the feeds you serve that no one is going to bother to click on anyway.
The big appeal of FeedBurner for most people is their subscriber count monitoring and, unfortunately for them, it's something they don't do a very good job of tracking to begin with.
The other big unspoken aspect of FeedBurner is that those very counts are so easy to manipulate that trusting anyone's numbers is too big of a leap of faith anyway. The whole system is about bunk now.