I believe that a literal "Netflix for news" would never be accepted by news sites ("newspapers") due to how much it would take away control and ownership of the

I believe that a literal "Netflix for news" would never be accepted by news sites ("newspapers") due to how much it would take away control and ownership of the customer relation. In an earlier post to hn [0] I have described what I believe might work instead, a payment and co-subscription service offered to news outlets that isn't exposing any own branding to end users. Once you hand over your subscriptions to an aggregator brand, there is no turning back. Three key assumptions are that #1 consumers are unwilling to forget the "luniversal availability of the decades of ad-financed web #2 consumers are unwilling to have more subscriptions than they had in the age of paper (exactly one, almost universally) #3 the discrepancy between #1 and #2 makes consumers not pay at all unless "Netflix for news" or something equivalent is available #4 news sites understand and accept the implications, particularly that giving away content to someone who already had a subscriptions elsewhere isn't a lossy sale, due to #2 Main challenges are defining and enforcing the content availability delta between "home" subscription and co-subscription and dealing with price differentials (perhaps by defining the co-subscription availability as a freely scalable ramp?) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736903