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Ask HN: Would you pay for a news pass?
Not that I can pull this off, but if it were available would you pay for an all access news pass that paid for most of the major news sources that are currently behind a firewall?
If so, How much would you be willing to pay?
- sharemywin 5y agofor me I would probably pay about $10 or $20 per year. Just curious if others feel that way?
- version_five 5y agoTo be honest I value mainstream online news at $0. As I've said before, I often don't even believe it's worth accepting cookies to read an article, and will close the browser when asked. There are occasionally interesting pieces of analysis here and there, but rarely from major news sources. I would potentially pay for good news aggregation / curation, and for real analysis / opinion that is interesting, not the pablum that comes out of mainstream news. The only real advantage news outlets like NYT have are that you can know what other people are talking about, overall the analysis is far to bland (or an best maybe intentionally ideological to try and appear controversial) to be worth anything.
- qnsi 5y agoso you never click on those news articles here? I am also thinking about not news per se but opinion pieces, lifestyle, technology articles?
- version_five 5y agoI click on all that stuff, but I don't value it in the sense that if I have to give something up for it, I just won't bother. That valuation is based on the relative abundance of information that's available, but that's what it is. I value an internet connection, a browser, a computer with a gui (though barely the gui part), etc, but not the incremental experience of clicking on a particular news (et al) link
- vimy 5y agoThat’s Apple News and it seems to be a failure.
- sharemywin 5y agoand I thought apple customers would buy anything.