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> Still, there are some industries where, for now at least, micro-subscriptions seem to be a distant dream. You’d be hard-pressed to find a major publisher that
by rgavuliak 4y ago
> Still, there are some industries where, for now at least, micro-subscriptions seem to be a distant dream. You’d be hard-pressed to find a major publisher that will let you pay to read just a single news article
That is not subscriptions, that is microtransactions and it has been attempted many such as Blendle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle that ended up pivoting to subscriptions. Microstransactions are the opposite of predictable revenue. They just don't work for the publisher side.