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We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse
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The biggest problem with paying for journalism is that nobody wants to be subscribing to 50 different websites.
If it were easier to pay for multiple news sites at once, I'm sure more people would do it.
That's my gripe as well. I currently subscribe to 3 or 4 online news outlets, and that's probably because I work in news. I can't do more.
Still, there are services like Apple News+ and Pressreader. I wish they would do more, but I guess it's better than nothing
Or just microcharge articles. I'm willing to pay 50cts for an article. But I dont want to signup for a subscription only to forget about it and pay 30 bucks afterwards.
That's what I've been thinking would be the best way to do that.
Some sort of API that each news outlet implements into their website that bills your account on a per-article basis when you read through it (once you've scrolled like 10% of the way down).
As a layman, I would expect the main difficulty would be getting news outlets to be part of it rather than pushing their own subscriptions.
Yeah. Could you do it?
I'd totally love to, but nah. I don't have the know-how. Seems like an untapped market though.