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because payment processors hate small payments and punish accordingly (with flat fee +%)

• wolvoleo 10mo ago
  That shouldn't really be a problem if there's an intermediary that takes the payment and distributes it.
  • Freak_NL 10mo ago
    We had a service that did this in the Netherlands (Blendle). They had a lot of the big Dutch media titles on-board. It failed and they pivoted to a crappy subscription service. The model just doesn't work at this point.
    • klez 10mo ago
      Inkl, on the other hand, is still alive and kicking. If you're ok with their selection of sources it's 9.99 per month o 99.99 per year. I still have a pay-per-read subscription, which I prefer to the subscription model, but I'm afraid they don't offer that anymore.
    • wolvoleo 10mo ago
      Yes I know blendle but this was decades ago. In a market that was completely different, where paywalls weren't yet a thing and they would just display ads. It was "ads vs paying a bit". Not really a big incentive. I think in this day and age where most news outlets simply give you a paywall I think this will work just fine. Because now the alternative is just not reading the content (or paying a sub which is ridiculous for a site you view a couple times a month)
      • Marsymars 9mo ago
        Their hope with subscriptions is that there's value to you visiting more than a couple times per month. Anecdotally, this works for me - I pay for a handful of subs, and I don't use any news aggregators or feeds - the sites with subs I pay for cover everything of interest to me.