I pay for a number of things and I'm ready to pay for more things. Here are the rules that almost nobody seems to be able to get right:
- I'll not pay monthly unless I have to. Everyone and their dog wants recurring revenue but the only ones I'm happy to pay constant recurring fees to are: hosting providers, email providers and all-you-can-listen/-watch services that contains everything [0]. Especially bad are local newspapers that are all paywalled - but won't sell me access to that one article someone linked but instead wants to sell me a subscription.
- Blendle: I'll be happy to pay for more articles on Blendle (Computer magazines, this one goes to you.)
- Blendle-like services from other actors.
- I'd even be happy to pay for ads to disappear. I'm a nice guy and I'm looking for ways to support the places I visit. Sadly Google closed that experiment before I could even try it.
[0]: At the moment this list contains just one entry, Spotify.
People don't want to pay per article. It's too much friction to decide every time they read something (or worry about refunds after the fact), and many users spend hours on these sites going through hundreds of pages. Easy discovery of other stories is a major part of publisher value. Blendle pricing doesn't work at scale for mainstream users and they say that themselves, but they have a beta in the US if you still want to use it: https://launch.blendle.com/
I pay for a number of things and I'm ready to pay for more things. Here are the rules that almost nobody seems to be able to get right:
- I'll not pay monthly unless I have to. Everyone and their dog wants recurring revenue but the only ones I'm happy to pay constant recurring fees to are: hosting providers, email providers and all-you-can-listen/-watch services that contains everything [0]. Especially bad are local newspapers that are all paywalled - but won't sell me access to that one article someone linked but instead wants to sell me a subscription.
- Blendle: I'll be happy to pay for more articles on Blendle (Computer magazines, this one goes to you.)
- Blendle-like services from other actors.
- I'd even be happy to pay for ads to disappear. I'm a nice guy and I'm looking for ways to support the places I visit. Sadly Google closed that experiment before I could even try it.
[0]: At the moment this list contains just one entry, Spotify.