I've written about this for years and am always given reasons why it can't happen. I keep wanting to pay to read, but there is no way I am entering my information ten times a day and trying to remember to cancel or pay 17.99 per one alluring article etc.https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1260995103864348674 …
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Replying to @zeynep
I wonder if it'd be possible to have some system shared between magazines/papers where, like, you paid $20 a month and got 10 credits you could use for different articles or whatever, and they got a percentage of the pool as a result? a universal subscription
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I mean, it'd be much easier if there was just a way to safely pay 50 cents with a click online!
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also of course this problem is *even worse* with academic papers where it's 'pay $60 for three days access to a single paper' and you just steal your buddy's jstor login anyway
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I subscribe to pretty much all the major papers and magazines save the NYT, but I still quite often want to read something in a local newspaper or smaller magazine
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I know right? Five years ago, I was puzzled how it didn't already exist.https://medium.com/message/spotify-but-for-the-titanic-a-proposal-for-the-future-of-news-and-publishing-40c41fbebe7b …
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The pathologies at how this problem was addressed in the music business are worth looking at. The fundamental problem (as Clay Shirky pointed out I think in 2000 or so) is cognitive—people don't want to keep track of all this stuff, they just want payment to go to the right place
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In practice, this means any pooled system for small payments is captured by the intermediaries and only 5% of most popular content sees any money, while everyone else is told to make do with exposure
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