Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait

Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @12:48PM (#11346083)

Excellent concept, and one I've been a proponent of for a while.

I'd like it to have an option (which it may have but I haven't found) to either not show me stuff I already subscribe to (WSJ, Economist, NYT) or allow me to enter subscription information so that I would not double pay.

From a consumption point of view there should be a "blendie link" which is like a URL shortner for articles which connects you through the paywall to the Blendie version of an article. Then if you share that link it lets other Blendie subscribers read it in a fairly frictionless way.

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by alexandernl on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:36PM (#11347533)

Blendle founder here. It's exactly what we're working on (making articles for free on Blendle if you already have a subscription), and are already doing ("blendle links") :)

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by ChuckMcM on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:48PM (#11347624)

Awesome, I look forward to you becoming the "Google Reader" of pay-walled content. :-) It has always been a challenge for me that I would be happy to pay for an article but rarely want to commit to a monthly fee without knowing if I'll use it enough to make it worthwhile. I really love that you guys have taken this sort of thing and shipped product.

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by gergles on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @01:26PM (#11346453)

They have that for WSJ and a bunch of other smaller publishers, you can add your login info in the settings.

They also have the link sharing you mentioned.

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