Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model
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Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model
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#2> Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication.
I can't imagine how that could ever have worked. Back in the day, I mostly read stuff linked by news.google.com or in various mail lists. Now it's mainly from HN. But either way, I'd need perhaps 20-40 subscriptions. Which would be unworkable.
We really need a system that pays realistic prices (maybe $0.10 or so) per article read. Whatever you'd get by dividing cost per "issue" by number of articles available to read.
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#3> Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication. I can't imagine how that could ever have worked. Back in the day, I mostly read stuff…
I don't want to pay for all of the articles I read, a large number of them are terrible and shouldn't be encouraged.
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#4> Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication. I can't imagine how that could ever have worked. Back in the day, I mostly read stuff…
I don't want to pay for all of the articles I read, a large number of them are terrible and shouldn't be encouraged.
I don’t want to pay for all the meals I eat, a large number of them are terrible... So I don’t go back. But you have to pay for what you eat.
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#5Maybe if the different news medias organized to create a shared payment account, then individual articles could be easily deducted from that one bucket.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to pay for all of the articles I read, a large number of them are terrible and shouldn't be encouraged.
I don’t want to pay for all the meals I eat, a large number of them are terrible... So I don’t go back. But you have to pay for what you eat.
Na, I go in and buy a cooked fish then split it among thousands like a digital Jesus.
Re: Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to pay for all of the articles I read, a large number of them are terrible and shouldn't be encouraged.
I don’t want to pay for all the meals I eat, a large number of them are terrible... So I don’t go back. But you have to pay for what you eat.
With the monthly digital subscription model, you end up paying for all you could possibly ever eat. Most of which you could never eat.
Unless you automated the "eating", and resold what you didn't need. Which is disgusting, and in the case of online media, almost certainly illegal.
But that is an interesting idea. Buy digital subscriptions to every media outlet that you'd ever want to read, and resell page views, using some sort of proxy setup. And yeah, illegal as hell.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t want to pay for all the meals I eat, a large number of them are terrible... So I don’t go back. But you have to pay for what you eat.
Na, I go in and buy a cooked fish then split it among thousands like a digital Jesus.
Oh. I did read your comment before posting mine, and laughed. But just now I see that you suggested the same approach. How embarrassing.
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#9> Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication. I can't imagine how that could ever have worked. Back in the day, I mostly read stuff…
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Re: Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model
#10> Like many, I was wrong about the subscription model for the news media. I thought that a possible scheme for subscriptions could be: one for national media, in the $12–20 a month range, another, less expensive ($5–$9/month) for local news, and the last one for specialized content, whether it is a business or a leisure publication. I can't imagine how that could ever have worked. Back in the day, I mostly read stuff…
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