You don’t but you have to put a base price on content for it to work. The point of a $0.50 access fee is that all articles individually would cost $0.50. Then you charge a subscription to unlimited access.

No one’s successfully done this because when they do they want to individually price articles and consumers like you for some reason want to attach a per-word-price for each article.

Implement a legitimate system and people will use it. Implement a system with work arounds and people will use the work arounds.

> No one’s successfully done this because when they do they want to individually price articles

But different articles are worth different amounts of money. You can't really escape that fact. If a news org has spent three months doing a deep dive into political corruption and created a blockbuster report on it, in what world can it be justified for that to be the same price as someone recapping last night's episode of Survivor? This is all covered in the article I linked to.

> Implement a legitimate system

By whose definition of legitimate is the question, I guess. I think it's very easy to stand on the outside and say "duh, just do it the right way!".

It's not like things haven't been tried.

- Blendle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle

- Scroll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service)

- Google Contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor

- Axate: https://www.axate.com

- Coil (to an extent): https://coil.com/

All these people tried to solve this problem and weren't able to.

> Implement a legitimate system and people will use it.

This sounds like no true Scotsman.

I guess it's tautological that nobody's tried the right model because nobody's been successful.