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The beauty of blendle was that you didn't have to think after every headline whether to pay to read the full article. They prominently had a refund option at t
by notatoad 5y ago
The beauty of blendle was that you didn't have to think after every headline whether to pay to read the full article. They prominently had a refund option at the end of every article, so you could decide after you read the article whether it was worth the money or not.
What killed blendle was the lack of newspapers willing to sign on, and the lack of integration for the few newspapers that actually did - if I was presented with a micropayment option instead of a $10/no paywall when I clicked a link to an article on Twitter, Facebook, or hacker news, it might work. But blendle payment was only an option if you found the article through the blendle website, and their website sucked.
- phreeza 5y agoEven with the refund it caused mental load I didn't like.
- mtts 5y agoWhy would a newspaper send money to Blendle for a someone clicking a link directly to their own site?
- detaro 5y agoto make money from the transaction?
- notatoad 5y agoif they want to offer me a first-party micropayment i would also be open to that. but my point is i'm not going to buy a $10-15/mo subscription to some regional newspaper in the middle of nowhere just because i clicked a link on twitter or hacker news to the one article they publish this decade that might interest me. i would be willing to pay to read an article, but newspapers are leaving money on the table by only offering a monthly subscription option which is obviously unsuitable for social media traffic.