I've always wondered why I can't pay some small fee (20 cents? $1?) to read an article. Why it have to be an entire subscription? If I put $20 / month into an account and then spend that bit by bit on high quality articles from different sites I'd gladly do that.

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Yiin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

because payment processors hate small payments and punish accordingly (with flat fee +%)

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wolvoleo 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That shouldn't really be a problem if there's an intermediary that takes the payment and distributes it.

	▲	Freak_NL 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We had a service that did this in the Netherlands (Blendle). They had a lot of the big Dutch media titles on-board. It failed and they pivoted to a crappy subscription service. The model just doesn't work at this point.

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tonyedgecombe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It would be cheaper for you but not very profitable for them.