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>The industry made clear it preferred to sell subscriptions but consumers collectively said no I want free beer I do want free beer, but the problem wasn't tha
by notatoad 7y ago
>The industry made clear it preferred to sell subscriptions but consumers collectively said no I want free beer
I do want free beer, but the problem wasn't that consumers didn't want to pay for a subscription, it's that we don't want to pay for 300 subscriptions. If you try to pay for a subscription to every news website that deserves your money, you're paying a lot more than $1/day
- cwkoss 7y agoI can't wait for there to be a ubiquitous method to tip pennies (or fractions of a penny) to strangers on the internet easily. I'd happily throw a nickel at a good article, but I don't want to have to make a per-publisher account to do so.
- notatoad 7y agoBlendle tried it. They had a bunch of good publishers signed on, and the platform created. But apparently people didn't want it.
- Engineering-MD 7y agoFlattr (https://flattr.com https://flattr.com) fried something similar, but unfortunately never took off really. The initial idea as I understand it (May have changed since) is you pay a set amount per month and tip articles you read. The amount tipped is the amount you pay per month divided by the number of people you tip. Therefore you never pay more than your subscription amount.