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Tell HN: A sustainable pay per read model for Online News
Paying for online news is not affordable because it means paying ~ $5 to $10 for each of many news agencies(WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, Nytimes etc). However, I wouldn't mind having an account with all of them and paying for only what I read that month. Say $1@ WSJ, $2 at Bloomberg, $0 at Nytimes for the month of May. If micro payments are not sustainable, pooling them over a month should make it so..
Why write it here?
I'm hoping someone who works for such news agencies read HN :-) and takes this idea.
This way, we pay for the content. We can demand that the content is served without tracking ads and encourage unbiased journalism.
- detaro 8y agoThere's blendle.com, closest I know to a general pay-per-view system.
- reacharavindh 8y agoBut, does blender have all of the news sources? And is it reasonably priced?
- detaro 8y agoNo, but as I said it's the service with currently the most as far as I know. Yes, it is reasonably priced. If you propose something new, it's at least worth looking at and figure out where you'd succeed where they don't.