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Piracy is a usability problem. People want to read one article, not subscribe for a year. This is just like pirating one song instead of buying the album.
by teeray 4y ago
Piracy is a usability problem. People want to read one article, not subscribe for a year. This is just like pirating one song instead of buying the album.
- towaway15463 4y agoBanks need to get their shit together and allow micro transactions.
- notjustanymike 4y agoPiracy is a business problem. They'd happily sell you one article a year if you're willing to pay more to offset the lack of a predictable revenue stream. Feast or famine tends to be a big problem for sustainability though, and it's one reason companies like Adobe moved Photoshop to a subscription model.
- teeray 4y agoRight, the problem is nobody cares about the business at all. They care about the content. The same problem exists for streaming services and cable TV channels before them. People want one or more specific shows, they don’t think Netflix is any better than Hulu, and are happy to cancel and move their streaming dollars from service to service when something else interests them. Subscriptions just subsidize mediocrity.
- melenaboija 4y agoAnd that is why Spotify exists and has been successful. Maybe is worth to try something different than digitalizing paper press and make people pay yearly subscriptions for one publication.
- teeray 4y agoSpotify is an anomaly. We should have a bunch of services with names like Sony+, Universal Now, Warner Music Stream, and Atlantic Listen at this point.