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You, yes. But we had a paywall at my work (major metropolitan newspaper) for a year and it was a dismal failure. It seems to mostly work for financial/business
by frandroid 11y ago
You, yes. But we had a paywall at my work (major metropolitan newspaper) for a year and it was a dismal failure. It seems to mostly work for financial/business papers for which many workplaces pay the subscription for. I'm curious to see how the Guardian's sustaining memberships will do.
- Joof 11y ago1) Way too expensive. 2) Not general enough (I'm not paying for 30 different news sites seprately). I don't go to your sites and look for news; HN or reddit link me to them. I think this is the point of micro payments, maybe spend a dollar or two a month on internet in general behind the scenes.
- halomru 11y agoPaywalls seem to mostly not work, but there are more options. There's the supporter model where a small percentage of viewers pays regularly because they like the content (works great for artists and YouTube rs) There's the preview model: you pay extra to get the content sooner. Lots of examples of that everywhere. Another example would be the freemium model, but there it's not obvious to me how to apply it here