Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
by MaxBarraclough on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:45AM
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I'm thinking of what happens when HackerNews links to a New York Times article. People hit the paywall, so someone posts a workaround. NYT get $0.
If there were an extremely convenient way to pay a few pennies for access (a price low enough that I wouldn't think twice), they'd be making something, at least. I'm not about to go through the hassle and cost of subscribing for a month, to access a single article, and neither is anyone else here.
I understand that this 'one shot' model isn't necessarily representative of how their website is generally used, of course.
> a WSJ is $4, so if readers wanted to read ten articles, they should charge 40-50 cents for them.
For a physical copy.
Disregarding current promotional prices, The Guardian charge £12/month for a digital subscription. New York Times is £8 for 4 weeks. Not sure how many articles the typical reader gets through though, or how that should inform our thinking here.
If there were an extremely convenient way to pay a few pennies for access (a price low enough that I wouldn't think twice), they'd be making something, at least. I'm not about to go through the hassle and cost of subscribing for a month, to access a single article, and neither is anyone else here.
I understand that this 'one shot' model isn't necessarily representative of how their website is generally used, of course.
> a WSJ is $4, so if readers wanted to read ten articles, they should charge 40-50 cents for them.
For a physical copy.
Disregarding current promotional prices, The Guardian charge £12/month for a digital subscription. New York Times is £8 for 4 weeks. Not sure how many articles the typical reader gets through though, or how that should inform our thinking here.