I'm also not convinced this is above-board with the organizations whose works are being resold. Once upon a time, we had newspaper machines where you put in a

I'm also not convinced this is above-board with the organizations whose works are being resold. Once upon a time, we had newspaper machines where you put in a quarter to open the machine. You'd take one and leave the rest for others. This feels like the equivalent of paying a quarter, taking all the newspapers out and reselling them for $12/month (If anyone involved with the project can explain how the $12/month goes towards the journalists, I'd love to know). I've also wanted to do something like this, but the problem in getting this started isn't technological, it's institutional. Basically you need to find a fair way of distributing the cost of subscriptions to the various organizations in a way that isn't pure traffic views, because then you'd create clickbait incentives again. In the end, you need some sort of 'the user decides who x% goes to, and y% is based on reading/use' with optimal values for x and y, but also in a way that you don't cannibalize each other's customers.