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Re:Won’t Subscribe by Spivak on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:48AM (#24616547)
I'm kinda surprised that "newsstand" isn't a popular payment strategy. You just have an account with WaPo and when you want to read the paper you pay $1.50 and get the "digital print edition" which has all the articles published today organized into neat little sections.

Newspapers don't have to become Spotify; iTunes is also good.

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Re:Won’t Subscribe by StillBored on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:09AM (#24617460)
But even with the newsstand model, you could always subscribe and have it delivered (usually at a discount vs the news stand).

The publishers (and lots of other busineses, think fusion360/photoshop/etc) are just greedy, they can't see the value in thousands of people randomly selecting their product today, and their competitors product tomorrow. They want lock in because its easier.

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