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Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

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Re: Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

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Post by jerkstate »

tootie wrote: post #16
kevmo wrote: post #6

I would pay $5/month for Hacker News, Drudge Report, and reddit.com/r/all.

Haven't seen anyone talk about Drudge in 7 or 8 years. I see he's still doing the 48pt headlines and the thoroughly biased journalism.

Drudge doesn't do any reporting, just aggregates articles from all over the spectrum - Buzzfeed to Breitbart, Newsweek to Newsmax, but mostly stuff in between (the headline right now is distilled from the first sentence of the Rasmussen article it links to, which I don't think is a biased source, although you may not like what is being reported)

Re: Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

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Post by gpmcadam »

kevmo wrote: post #6

I would pay $5/month for Hacker News, Drudge Report, and reddit.com/r/all.

> and reddit.com/r/all

Good news, you can already - and it's actually cheaper than $5

https://www.reddit.com/gold?goldtype=autorenew&period=monthl...

Re: Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

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Post by paulryanrogers »

bArray wrote: post #14
piracykills wrote: post #7

Is it bad if I'd say absolutely none? If any I read started charging I'd find similar content somewhere else.

I agree, something feels impure about paying for knowledge, we should be pushing back on any kind of pay wall. That said, I'm really not sure what system should be put in place to pay for quality content.

Must it be paying for knowledge? What about paying for convenience of accessing it anytime anywhere and in a timely manner?

Ultimately someone has to do the research and legwork. If they don't get paid they'll do less/none.

Re: Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

digitalni wrote: post #20

How do you know that "a lot of people" are paying to read stratechery.com? Any sources to back this claim?

> How do you know that "a lot of people" are paying to read stratechery.com

"Ben Thompson has several thousand readers who are happy to pay him $100 a year for his excellent Stratechery newsletter" [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/04/why-newspaper-subscription...

Re: Ask HN: Which blogs/newsletters would you be willing to pay $5/month for?

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

piracykills wrote: post #7

Is it bad if I'd say absolutely none? If any I read started charging I'd find similar content somewhere else.

> Is it bad if I'd say absolutely none?

If you're okay with ads or donate to journalistic non-profits, I think it's okay. Otherwise, it is unsustainable.

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