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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 5
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    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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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 5
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        Maybe wire services like AP/Reuter’s should just expand their coverage and offer consumer products

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      1. crankycatcoder‏ @crankycatcoder Jul 5
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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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      1. Jake Steel‏ @JakeSteel Jul 5
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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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      2. Soo-rah-z‏ @splasheth Jul 5
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        Curating is a challenge

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        don’t want curation. Just aggregation

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      1. 🅑🅔🅝‏ @ben_mathes Jul 5
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        @SubstackInc might get there. The bundle you want seems to be articles or authors.

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      1. Rob Murphy‏ @RobMurp56225762 Jul 6
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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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      2. Lei Gong‏ @gonglei89 Jul 6
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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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      3. Lei Gong‏ @gonglei89 Jul 6
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        Basically, bring content streaming model to reading articles, but with more unitization of content. Was always doubtful such a product could take off though given major publications would never want to cede that much power and control.

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      1. Mick Costigan‏ @micostigan Jul 6
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        Those economics don’t work to supply the quality of news you want to consume.

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