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Is there a service in the same vein as music streaming, but for news outlets? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription somewhere at a reasonable price, but not ha

Is there a service in the same vein as music streaming, but for news outlets? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription somewhere at a reasonable price, but not happy to pay for and manage 150+ individual subscriptions (like what this tool provides). Granted I wouldn't ever actually sign up for most of them, but managing even more than a couple would be rather undesirable. Perhaps something with pay-per-view built in, given how infrequently I come across articles from certain publishers?

jwilliams 5y ago
Take a look at https://www.inkl.com/ https://www.inkl.com/
aezell 5y ago
Apple News does this. Tons of magazines across the spectrum and number of larger US newspapers. If you aren't in the US or at least wanting to read in English, I don't know.
- RC_ITR 5y ago
  In general HN doesn't like apple's approach to news aggregating (i.e. a closed app rather than a 'super account' that works on native websites or an RSS-type feed) but +1
  - aezell 5y ago
    I wouldn't rely on their aggregation. But, with a subscription, you can just read the magazines in the same format and layout as they are printed. No aggregation to get in the way.
- netfortius 5y ago
  In fact in France quite a few major French, local and some international newspapers + tech + science + entertainment + + + magazines are free online with a library registration. The service is called Cafeyn, and you could bookmark, print or save as pdf pages of all publications available.
xoqem 5y ago
I've tried Blendle in the past: https://blendle.com/ https://blendle.com/ As I recall it was a pay-per-article model (around 25 cents per article looks like) and it had a number of publications to choose from. Though I haven't used it lately, I like the idea.
- FastMonkey 5y ago
  Doesn't that get you back to the problem of click bait? If newspapers are only paid for articles with headlines that grab your attention, then that's where their incentives will drive them. Part of the attraction for newspapers for me is that you're sort of forced to read the other articles as well.
raybb 5y ago
That was the idea of Scroll before it was acquired by twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service)

jwilliams 5y ago

Take a look at https://www.inkl.com/ https://www.inkl.com/

aezell 5y ago

Apple News does this. Tons of magazines across the spectrum and number of larger US newspapers. If you aren't in the US or at least wanting to read in English, I don't know.

RC_ITR 5y ago
In general HN doesn't like apple's approach to news aggregating (i.e. a closed app rather than a 'super account' that works on native websites or an RSS-type feed) but +1
- aezell 5y ago
  I wouldn't rely on their aggregation. But, with a subscription, you can just read the magazines in the same format and layout as they are printed. No aggregation to get in the way.
netfortius 5y ago
In fact in France quite a few major French, local and some international newspapers + tech + science + entertainment + + + magazines are free online with a library registration. The service is called Cafeyn, and you could bookmark, print or save as pdf pages of all publications available.

xoqem 5y ago

I've tried Blendle in the past: https://blendle.com/ https://blendle.com/ As I recall it was a pay-per-article model (around 25 cents per article looks like) and it had a number of publications to choose from. Though I haven't used it lately, I like the idea.

FastMonkey 5y ago
Doesn't that get you back to the problem of click bait? If newspapers are only paid for articles with headlines that grab your attention, then that's where their incentives will drive them. Part of the attraction for newspapers for me is that you're sort of forced to read the other articles as well.

raybb 5y ago

That was the idea of Scroll before it was acquired by twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service)