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I don't understand why paying for single articles isn't more popular. It's the same for streaming services: I should be able to pay for that one TV-series I wan
by lawn 7y ago
I don't understand why paying for single articles isn't more popular. It's the same for streaming services: I should be able to pay for that one TV-series I want to watch, or that one movie that's only available on that one streaming service I don't have.
- mynameisvlad 7y agoI mean, you can do the latter already. You can buy a season or a single episode of a show on iTunes, Amazon, etc. You can also rent or buy single movies across many different platforms. It’s just absurdly expensive compared to a streaming service. This is partly due to legacy pricing (I don’t think the price of a movie or TV show has gone down in many years, and all the providers charge the same) but also because I’m sure a lot of revenue for subscription services comes from people who buy the subscription but don’t use the service.
- the8472 7y agoTransactions (micro or not) have wall-time, monetary and psychological overhead. If you split this among dozens of items and providers it only gets worse. Paying per article may make sense for in-depth analysis, investigative journalism and other large pieces. But for the daily news it's probably just too small a unit.
- fiddlerwoaroof 7y agoThere is Blendle, which I find pretty nice: it’s like 25¢ per article and you put money into an account ahead of time.