Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by photonios on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:55AM (#15591361)

Blende is great! I have zero problems paying for good reading material but I don’t want to pay 5 $10 subscriptions. Blendle just lets me pay per article.

They are based in the Netherlands, my home country and they have deals with all major newspapers here, so I am not missing out on anything.

I highly recommend you give this a shot.

Note: I am not associated with Blendle in any way. Just a happy user spreading the word.

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by thinkMOAR on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @11:40AM (#15594016)

Not sure if you are Dutch, but if you follow dutch news then you'd known the soap bubble 'blendle' has burst already... Afaics they are at the brink of bankruptcy, and needed multiple financial injections to 'survive' and papers like NRC, FTM and recently the telegraaf have already pulled their publications.

Today the people behind blendle launched a new product, Medianieuwsbrief.nl To me another pointer that blendle is no longer viable and they are looking for new products.

They are what others describe causing brand erosion, as they collect articles from lots of sources, readers will forget/not know who actually wrote the article, which newspaper the good articles come from etc.

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by photonios on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:00PM (#15595658)

I am Dutch. Born and raised. I moved out two years ago though so I am not completely up-to-date with all the recent development.

Jeez. I didn't know the situation became that bad. I didn't notice because I mostly read American news. From what I quickly read on for example NRC [0], they pulled their content because Blendle introduced the concept of a subscription and that would cut profits for NRC.

The new concept Medianieuwsbrief.nl looks like a last resort kinda thing. I doubt it would take off.

[0] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/03/07/waarom-nrc-stopt-met-bl...

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by thinkMOAR on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:54AM (#15599648)

Alexander said to be inspired by https://www.mediagazer.com For their new site.

That new site hurts my eyes :)

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by sverige on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:43AM (#15591768)

Does it work as I suspect: you pay, and yet you still get ads too?

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by hafunnyusername on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:12AM (#15591856)

No ads in my experience. You should check out the beta and see what you think, I still think it's running. You receive a few dollars in credit to try out the platform. Personally, I really love it.

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by photonios on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:50AM (#15591981)

Nope, I never saw a single ad. You open up the app, pick and article that looks interesting to you and you can start reading. When you click, you pay a small amount, the price for an article is always clearly displayed.

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by photonios on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:53AM (#15591989)

Oh c'mon. I cannot endorse a cool product? They're from my home country, I like their product and I'd like to see people use these kind of services where authors actually get paid instead of through ads.

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