Someone needs to monetarily disintermediate newspapers for their own good. As in b8ndled cable not Facebook. They’re terrible at owning direct audience relationships. I’d pay $10/mo for say my choice of 100 articles from a buffet of 20 newspapers.
Didn’t Apple try that?
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Maybe wire services like AP/Reuter’s should just expand their coverage and offer consumer products
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The National Post (Canada, Kindle) seems to be taking something like that approach (their choice though, not mine) and it's much better than the various garbage I was subscribed to before.
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It was a 💩 implementation. Article selection from the major outlets was curated and not X free articles of your choice. You had access to what someone wanted you to have access too
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You just hit on what might be the next big thing. I cannot afford to subscribe to all the magazines I want to read, but I'll pay per article to read a bit from each of them. (next if you'd start a cable company with only my chosen channels........) Blendle eh?
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Once had an idea for an article based tiered subscription model through a news reading app where people paid for a certain number of articles a month, could read that many articles from any publication that was on board, and publications got cut of subscription and ad dollars.
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