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What we're really missing is an analog to the old "stick a quarter in the machine, get a newspaper" model Plenty of people would gladly pay a bit of money to g
by dralley 9y ago
What we're really missing is an analog to the old "stick a quarter in the machine, get a newspaper" model
Plenty of people would gladly pay a bit of money to get access to a day's news when they want to, without a subscription. But it has to be easy, not "type in all my credit card info to get one paper".
- mrguyorama 9y agoThings like visa checkout, probably with browser integration would work well. I wonder if mozilla could push forward with it, as I doubt chrome would be okay not getting a slice of the pie from the fees somehow
- maxxxxx 9y agoI used to have a Sunday subscription for the Washington Post. That was pretty affordable and all the newspaper I wanted.
- pmlamotte 9y agoBlendle is somewhat similar to what you're talking about, though it's pay per article as opposed to per day. https://blendle.com/ https://blendle.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle