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So if you want to read it, perhaps it's time to consider paying? (Alternatively, private browsing mode might work.)

by jfk13 7y ago

Bud 7y ago
More to the point, it's better to post links that are viewable by the full audience, where possible.
randallsquared 7y ago
Paying providers directly either means micropayments or committing to reading enough of that specific news source to get a non-micropayment-sized amount of value from it. No one has really cracked micropayments in a way that has caught on, yet, and the model of depending on a single source for a majority of news has gone the way of print newspapers. Bloomberg, NYT, WashPo, the Economist, and other such places need to figure out how to provide value commensurate with the money they charge, or else figure out how to exist in a world where one of "their" readers still visits dozens or hundreds of other such outlets a month. > Try 3 months for -$105- $6. Cancel anytime. The 105 is just a joke, and even $2 a month is very high, considering there'd be similar payments to 20+ other such outlets.
- jonfw 7y ago
  exactly. The subscription model only makes sense for loyal readers- which I am not.
toss1 7y ago
I'd actually be happy to pay substantially for a sufficiently broad spectrum of news from multiple providers However, $100-$500 to each one that I want to read >5 articles per month is not sustainable. We need one of two models: Pay maybe $0.20/article, refundable if I don't finish, don't like it (obviously limiting the number of Refund hits/month to prevent abuse) Pay once for a selection of feeds, say $100/quarter, and pick your favorite 5 out of 50, get unlimited reads from that batch and 10/month from the rest. I'd happily sign up for either, but no one publication provides sufficient breadth to support at the demanded price level.
- mywittyname 7y ago
  Isn't this the Apple News model?
  - toss1 7y ago
    Seems so, tho coverage wasn't great when I first looked - worth another look now, do they have Bloomberg, WaPo, FTimes, & other top tiers yet?

So if you want to read it, perhaps it's time to consider paying? (Alternatively, private browsing mode might work.)

by jfk13 7y ago

So if you want to read it, perhaps it's time to consider paying? (Alternatively, private browsing mode might work.)

Bud 7y ago

More to the point, it's better to post links that are viewable by the full audience, where possible.

randallsquared 7y ago

Paying providers directly either means micropayments or committing to reading enough of that specific news source to get a non-micropayment-sized amount of value from it. No one has really cracked micropayments in a way that has caught on, yet, and the model of depending on a single source for a majority of news has gone the way of print newspapers. Bloomberg, NYT, WashPo, the Economist, and other such places need to figure out how to provide value commensurate with the money they charge, or else figure out how to exist in a world where one of "their" readers still visits dozens or hundreds of other such outlets a month. > Try 3 months for -$105- $6. Cancel anytime. The 105 is just a joke, and even $2 a month is very high, considering there'd be similar payments to 20+ other such outlets.

jonfw 7y ago
exactly. The subscription model only makes sense for loyal readers- which I am not.

toss1 7y ago

I'd actually be happy to pay substantially for a sufficiently broad spectrum of news from multiple providers However, $100-$500 to each one that I want to read >5 articles per month is not sustainable. We need one of two models: Pay maybe $0.20/article, refundable if I don't finish, don't like it (obviously limiting the number of Refund hits/month to prevent abuse) Pay once for a selection of feeds, say $100/quarter, and pick your favorite 5 out of 50, get unlimited reads from that batch and 10/month from the rest. I'd happily sign up for either, but no one publication provides sufficient breadth to support at the demanded price level.

mywittyname 7y ago
Isn't this the Apple News model?
- toss1 7y ago
  Seems so, tho coverage wasn't great when I first looked - worth another look now, do they have Bloomberg, WaPo, FTimes, & other top tiers yet?