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It's ~$20 a month. Do you really think I'm going to pay ~$220/yr so I can read articles on WSJ once in a while?
by brink 9y ago
It's ~$20 a month. Do you really think I'm going to pay ~$220/yr so I can read articles on WSJ once in a while?
- pmarreck 9y agoSeems like there is an unaddressed business opportunity for a per-article micropayment option.
- abakker 9y agoNews organizations work because the interests of the many finance a broad array of articles. Micropayments for articles would disrupt and distort the motives of unbiased news. There would emerge a hierarchy of articles chasing clicks and editors that favored certain writers with privileged access to click-generating traffic. underperforming articles would cease, and eventually, we'd get CNN. Joking aside, the newspaper model finances diversity of content. Per article payments finance creating lowest common denominator drivel.
- saimiam 9y agoLiterally no entity with more than one line of business has each line of business growing at the same rate. This implies that the successful LoBs are "clickbait" to subsidize the less profitable LoBs. Familiar (counter) example - loss leaders in supermarkets.
- briankelly 9y agoMaybe I'm not savvy enough but I don't really see what they offer over free publications like Reuters or Bloomberg. I've been tempted to subscribe to NYT and/or The Economist in the past but they have less meaningful competition in my opinion.