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> Imagine you had to start paying to view content on all your favourite websites. > Would you give up on the internet completely or happily stump up for good j
by a3n 11y ago
> Imagine you had to start paying to view content on all your favourite websites.
> Would you give up on the internet completely or happily stump up for good journalism and entertainment?
I used to read a lot of books, but the Web is constantly available and mostly free. Very low barrier to start reading something, and little consequence to stopping something.
So I suppose I'd go back to reading books.
I already subscribe to NYT online, been thinking about The Economist. There might be room in there for one more subscription to something. Maybe two. But I really can't see myself subscribing to anything more focused than general news, since I don't visit anything focused at any regular rate now, while it's free.
- dagw 11y agoI think the solution might be something along the lines of spotify for web content. There are probably 100+ sites out there that occasionally produce content good enough that I'd pay for it, and I'd probably be happy to pay $10/month to access the content, but I'm certainly not paying $10/month to each site.
- a3n 11y agoI've thought about the likelihood of subscription aggregators recently, in the context of the ad blocking wars. I think there will come an evolution beyond that. Eventually writers and other content workers will come to work for the larger aggregators themselves. The aggregators will become the publishers.