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This solution is far from ideal. In the majority of cases, publishers would be selling access to a single article for a price of subscription. What we need for

This solution is far from ideal. In the majority of cases, publishers would be selling access to a single article for a price of subscription. What we need for a healthy content market, is perhaps a micropayment system.

chmars 9y ago
I think we need more flat rates, Readly is a great example IMHO: https://global.readly.com/en https://global.readly.com/en For 10 € / month, you get a virtual newsstand with magazines from all over the world.
- mrmondo 9y ago
  Sounded interesting but it looks like they’ve disallowed Australians from signing up.
  - pls2halp 9y ago
    That terrible. We really need access to things like this too with the News Corp/Murdoch stranglehold on he media(seriously, almost every paper looks something like this come election: http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-204222.jpg http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-2042...)
  - reacweb 9y ago
    geolocalisation is censure. It should never be accepted as a good practice.
    - mrmondo 9y ago
      Indeed, it’d be nice if there was a way to spoof your location without connecting to an offshore VPN (or a DNS proxy in some cases) but we just don’t seem to be there yet.
  - SyneRyder 9y ago
    I think Google might be working on something. When I visited an Australian Fairfax newspaper yesterday (WA Today), I got a prompt inviting me to 'subscribe' to the newspaper via Google Contributor, which I was able to do. They're charging 1c per page view for an ad-free experience. I think I only got the prompt because they detected I was using an ad-blocker though. I'm not sure it's open to everyone yet.
- ComodoHacker 9y ago
  I think flat rates encourage consolidation, while micropayments encourage competition.
saimiam 9y ago
I'll put my solution up for HN's consideration - https://datajoy.us/fupm.html https://datajoy.us/fupm.html We even paid out to our first couple of websites on Sept 30th! Join the party.
mtgx 9y ago
I think the only micropayment solution that is going to work is something like STEEM, which is growing organically and fast, because it provides a huge benefit to users, too, not just publishers. In fact the developers have just announced something relevant to this: https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/announcing-smart-media-tokens-smts https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/announcing-smart-media-tokens...

chmars 9y ago

I think we need more flat rates, Readly is a great example IMHO: https://global.readly.com/en https://global.readly.com/en For 10 € / month, you get a virtual newsstand with magazines from all over the world.

mrmondo 9y ago
Sounded interesting but it looks like they’ve disallowed Australians from signing up.
- pls2halp 9y ago
  That terrible. We really need access to things like this too with the News Corp/Murdoch stranglehold on he media(seriously, almost every paper looks something like this come election: http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-204222.jpg http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-2042...)
- reacweb 9y ago
  geolocalisation is censure. It should never be accepted as a good practice.
  - mrmondo 9y ago
    Indeed, it’d be nice if there was a way to spoof your location without connecting to an offshore VPN (or a DNS proxy in some cases) but we just don’t seem to be there yet.
- SyneRyder 9y ago
  I think Google might be working on something. When I visited an Australian Fairfax newspaper yesterday (WA Today), I got a prompt inviting me to 'subscribe' to the newspaper via Google Contributor, which I was able to do. They're charging 1c per page view for an ad-free experience. I think I only got the prompt because they detected I was using an ad-blocker though. I'm not sure it's open to everyone yet.
ComodoHacker 9y ago
I think flat rates encourage consolidation, while micropayments encourage competition.

saimiam 9y ago

I'll put my solution up for HN's consideration - https://datajoy.us/fupm.html https://datajoy.us/fupm.html We even paid out to our first couple of websites on Sept 30th! Join the party.

mtgx 9y ago

I think the only micropayment solution that is going to work is something like STEEM, which is growing organically and fast, because it provides a huge benefit to users, too, not just publishers. In fact the developers have just announced something relevant to this: https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/announcing-smart-media-tokens-smts https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/announcing-smart-media-tokens...