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I would happily pay for well researched information and that is not on a website overencumbered with advertisements. And has a useable blog like experience. Is
by samsquire 4y ago
I would happily pay for well researched information and that is not on a website overencumbered with advertisements. And has a useable blog like experience.
Is this the collective action problem? We cannot have nice news websites due to the profit from subscriptions is too low to afford business so they add adverts everywhere.
I think microtransactions could work. But people need to be willing to pay and people aren't willing to pay the same as me. I don't want to subscribe to one newspaper I want a mixture of information available.
- nagonago 4y agoBesides simply being unwilling to pay, I think most people just don't want to spend the mental effort evaluating the potential value of an article they haven't read yet. When the question arises, "is this article worth $1?" it's much easier to just click away and read something else. We are spoiled by a wealth of free information, even if it's mostly low quality.
- samsquire 4y agoI recently bought the film Contact as it's my favourite film. But I don't usually buy film or music and I use Spotify. So the advertless model works with me. When it comes to seeing if you want to buy something that's pretty difficult. I like the bandcamp model of Pay what you want, so you can try someone's music and if you like it you can give them money to reward them. Spotify has PayPal links on artists pages. What I want is an all you can eat subscription where I can direct what content gets created. So I would be responsible for the content that is produced as I funded it. What's that community of Linux kernel developers that you pay for articles?