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You still have the friction of getting 80,000 people to set up and maintain a payment method of some kind. The perceived insignificance of a few cents per arti
by nugget 10y ago
You still have the friction of getting 80,000 people to set up and maintain a payment method of some kind. The perceived insignificance of a few cents per article could both help and hurt the establishment of this.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoBlendle appears to already have the payment system set up, I'm not sure how it works (just a user). My test was the NY Times which I was subscribed to but frustrated when I would go a week without reading any articles and yet still paying for "access" and the reading experience as a subscriber was still filled with ads. I stopped that subscription and put the equivalent dollars into my Blendle "wallet" and read NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and occasional Barrons article. I was spending less than I had been on just the NYT, and the reading experience was far better. I've suggested to Blendle that they should negotiate with these sites to put a Blendle link to the article in their Paywall pop up. Not sure if they took that idea anywhere.