In China, the online literature industry represented by qidian.com is a typical model of charging by word count: a few cents RMB per 1000 words. If you subscrib

In China, the online literature industry represented by qidian.com is a typical model of charging by word count: a few cents RMB per 1000 words. If you subscribe to a novel with several million words in full, you will find that the final cost far exceeds buying a physical book. I subscribe to three or five online entertainment novels for fun and relaxation all year round, because reading them only takes a few minutes of fragmented time every day, so this price is acceptable. But I think this word count payment model is difficult to replicate in serious news or more formal opinion articles, because users do not have much motivation to subscribe daily, and this fee is too low, and also need to pay attention to piracy issues. Novels are not very meaningful if they are not copied in full. But for a single article, it is very easy to be copied away for 5 cents and made public on the Internet. <This comment is translated by new bing.>