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I'd love a subscription service that gives me access to all my local news sources
by annexrichmond 5y ago
I'd love a subscription service that gives me access to all my local news sources
- babypuncher 5y agoMy idea has been to build a centralized subscription service, somewhat like Apple News, but structured differently. You buy a monthly subscription that grants you credits each month. You can allocate those credits to whichever news sources you want, and for that month you get unlimited access to your chosen outlets.
- bduerst 5y agoThat's just monthly newspaper subscriptions with extra steps. Better to do the music subscription route, where the user sub revenue is automatically divided amongst all the newspapers the user accesses for the month. IIRC Google tried to do this with display ads, where you would see pictures of cats instead of display ads on the news pages and pay the website the few cents they would have made on the impression. Dunno what happened to it but people who are willing to pay for content always overestimate the size of the market of other people who are willing to do the same.
- ghaff 5y agoThe problem is that, increasingly, those local news sources simply don't exist. My town doesn't have a newspaper. There's a website that hosts local news in my state but there is just hardly ever anything there. I get more news from Facebook or Next Door.