Alt view 3: the other real problem is that not enough of us are willing to pay for news, so we get the click-bait ad-driven news we deserve.
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@Blendle - pay by article and you can refund at bottom of article if you didn't like the value you received -
I looked at the site. It's not what I want as a user. I don't want recommendations, just micropayments.
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it literally is just micro payments for articles. You can ignore the recs. Just that you have to read in their environment.
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That sounds bad too. The whole reason I want micropayments is to make things less work for me.
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Twitter or fb should have built this in long ago since that is where I get most links from. Blendle is closest I have seen though
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most people don't want to pay for news. If news is important to you, most likely you're price inelastic, thus sub model.
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I am price inelastic. I am not work inelastic.
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if true, then you will pay for subscriptions, set to auto renew, and never think about it again as you read any article!
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also keep in mind that there are many kinds of news. "It rained in LA" is commodity, but Grant's Interest Rate Observer isn't.
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i feel like part of the issue is that nobody has made content compelling enough that ppl will want to pay. it's getting there though
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The NYT already does. I read lots of articles I'd pay for. They just make it too hard.
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what kind of articles are they? analysis / opinion? Or regular stories? Or both?
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Mostly regular stories.
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I'd have paid for this one I just read for example: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-murder-problem.html …
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great article. did you know you would have paid ex ante before reading it?
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Whats wrong with subscription? I think its the way to go - much simpler.
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Too much cognitive load, because they auto-renew and deliberately make it hard to cancel.
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Plus it's a form with 23 fields, whereas dumping your NYT cookies is about 6 clicks and 7 chars of typing.
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Well yeah thats weird / old school.
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