[karmacondon]

I would really really like to pay per article for content from the New York Times, the Wall St Journal and a few other news sites with annoying paywalls. Whenever I go to subscribe I think, "This isn't worth it because I don't read publication X frequently enough to justify a bill of any size on my credit card". But if this lets me just pay $20/mo to this service and get access to N articles from a number of subscription based publications, then this is a good deal. Sign me up.

But I'm just not clear on how this works from looking at the home page. Is this all paywalled content? Or will I be paying $0.25 for something I could have read for free, like a sucker?

And also, is the NYT coming out ahead here? Does it make sense to split ~$0.30 per article with blendle instead of getting a $1/week or whatever from a regular subscription? Because I would hate to get used to using this and then have it disappear in six months because the basic economics of the business don't make sense.

If it works out I think it does, this is great. If not, hopefully it can get there soon.

[vitd]

Not only that, but those prices seem way too high. If a subscription from the publisher costs $20/mo. but reading a single article costs $0.25, that works out to 80 articles per month at the individual price to reach the subscription price. That's around 2-3 articles per day. If I subscribed to the NYT, I'd probably be reading more than 3 articles per day from it. I'm guessing I'd probably read at least 10 per day. The cost would be more like $0.15 per article. As someone who doesn't subscribe to the NYT, even $0.15/article seems higher than the value I place on their articles. (Obviously, because otherwise I'd subscribe.) I don't see how this works out for me as a user or them as a publisher.

[gpvos]

> Or will I be paying $0.25 for something I could have read for free, like a sucker?

This has happened to me with articles from Trouw (Dutch newspaper) that were available on their site for free, but were paid-for on Blendle. I really hope they have fixed this by now.

[gpvos]

Nope, still happens.