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by temp_account_32
1292 days ago
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Maybe they should sort out their pricing model. I'm not going to pay 20 different $10/month subscriptions to different papers so I can read HN and participate in the discussion. Maybe I would pay something like a Spotify equivalent of 10-15 dollars a month to get access to all of these news websites, maybe even a limited number of articles as I don't browse them without being sent to them from another website, but nothing like that exists. So, they get zero dollars from me instead of some finite amount. There are also some papers that I particularly enjoy and would like to support them but are just priced too prohibitively. One of these is the Financial Times, I enjoy their writing a lot, but the digital only plan is $40/month, that's just way too much for someone who doesn't work at hedge funds or SV tech companies. |
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It does, or did… Apple News for instance, previously Texture from Next Issue Media which rocked till acquired and even for a while after.
Unfortunately, publishers keep withdrawing from those things after they're done using the software's popularity to gain addicts. So now you have to "bring your own" subscription to the Apple News app for those publishers that withdrew. It's bizarre.