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• DennisP 7y ago
  That's a lot of money for one article. We need a better payment model for this environment where we're all reading a few articles each from lots of different publications. Maybe a micropayment per article (pushing the pay button is less work than getting around paywalls), or a consortium model where a lot of publications team up and divide your subscription money according to how much you read each one. I subscribe to what I read most, but I'm not going to subscribe to thirty different magazines and newspapers.
  • bradleyjg 7y ago
    That’s totally fair, but you can just not read articles in publications you don’t want to buy, right?
    • DennisP 7y ago
      I could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the point. Bypassing paywalls seems to me about as offensive as going to a bookstore and looking through a magazine without buying it. Maybe I end up buying a magazine, but I'm not going to buy every magazine I pick up, and basically everybody thinks that's fine.
      • bradleyjg 7y ago
        I’d say bypassing a paywall is like tearing the plastic off a sealed magazine. If the publisher was okay with you thumbing through it they wouldn’t have sealed it in plastic. Same with a paywall. Publishers have the option of a nag screen instead if they want to go that route.