As I’m sure anyone who is on social media regularly has noticed, it seems like every news story is behind a paywall now. From the Rolling Stone article claiming to have exclusive information that members of Congress were involved in the 1 / 6 riot, to a
Years ago there was a lot of talk about micropayments, but it never materialized. I'm still not sure why. I'd really like to have easy access to Megan McArdle's writing and I'd be willing to pay a little bit for each essay, but not enough to pay for a Washington Post subscription. Substack has the right idea, but subscribe to a couple of writers and suddenly that's more than my Netflix subscription.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, bc I subscribe to *a lot* of journalists on substack and consume *a lot* of media. But I don't read every post that you or anyone else write. I will not pay a full subscription, bc if I did so for everyone I follow my kids wouldn't eat ... currently a substack subscription could be a solution, it could give me access to x articles a month/or all perhaps and then the money distributed between content creators based on clicks (then we are back in clickbait terrritory though?). But I have seen podcasters move their content behind a paywall, where they are the only one I follow and I have to pay for the entire content of said platform. I think micropayments could be a solution. If I were to pay €0.1 for an article I wouldn't think twice about it. My husband and I regularly tip on Bitchute for example.
Years ago there was a lot of talk about micropayments, but it never materialized. I'm still not sure why. I'd really like to have easy access to Megan McArdle's writing and I'd be willing to pay a little bit for each essay, but not enough to pay for a Washington Post subscription. Substack has the right idea, but subscribe to a couple of writers and suddenly that's more than my Netflix subscription.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, bc I subscribe to *a lot* of journalists on substack and consume *a lot* of media. But I don't read every post that you or anyone else write. I will not pay a full subscription, bc if I did so for everyone I follow my kids wouldn't eat ... currently a substack subscription could be a solution, it could give me access to x articles a month/or all perhaps and then the money distributed between content creators based on clicks (then we are back in clickbait terrritory though?). But I have seen podcasters move their content behind a paywall, where they are the only one I follow and I have to pay for the entire content of said platform. I think micropayments could be a solution. If I were to pay €0.1 for an article I wouldn't think twice about it. My husband and I regularly tip on Bitchute for example.