I think Patreon is a good model. Micropayments and "pay what you want" are also attractive, but probably harder to bring customers to. We're in an increasingly

I think Patreon is a good model. Micropayments and "pay what you want" are also attractive, but probably harder to bring customers to. We're in an increasingly "app-ified" world, so I could see mobile/desktop apps that connect to a service and pull down articles in exchange for a subscription (this could also be done in-browser, but I like the idea of a native application so you could ideally keep articles offline easily). Netflix (or Steam) for text, in a way. This has already been done by a variety of publications, but I think the biggest issue is that they all have their own separate subscriptions to manage. If there were an open standard for this kind of thing, it could all be integrated into one app where you can easily subscribe and unsubscribe to each service on a monthly basis. That would also make a la carte articles easy to serve; get a headline and a snippet with a price next to it as well as user reviews of the author and the article.