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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by user5994461 on Friday May 08, 2020 @08:15AM (#23113913)
The price needs to be at or below $0.09 for people to just unlock the news and read on, no thinking.

An online newspapers might make $3 per thousand views, plastering ads everywhere and maybe videos. That means they survive with way less than 1 penny per view. They have no excuse to try to charge orders of magnitude more.

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Re:The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret by MaxBarraclough on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:15PM (#23118349)
Not all online news sites are the same. The New York Times does real journalism, which takes real resources. I'm not convinced that they can be sustained on advertising dollars.

> They have no excuse to try to charge orders of magnitude more.

But that's just what you proposed. $0.09 is over an order of magnitude greater than $0.003. That pricepoint would still be fine - far less than the price of a coffee.

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