Dan GoodinDear readers. If you're not willing to support the families of those you want to read then we regretfully will be preventing you from obtaining our work for free.
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Niklas Goerke@dangoodin often, I would be very much willing to pay a small fee to be able to read an article. Just like I would buy a printed magazine. I just can’t pay for a subscription for all of the news outlets.
It would be awesome if you could provide a simple „pay 2,50 € to access this article“ process.
yes, agreed. I run into this predicament multiple times per day. Interesting that micro payments has been one of the Internet's longest running unsolved problems.
Manoj Kasichainula@dangoodin @Niklas There was (at least from my perspective as a reader) a good solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service) . Twitter (pre-Elon) chewed them up.
But also, some publications decided to keep requiring a paywall and just killed the ads behind said paywall, or maybe the other way around, I forget. It was easily defeated by ad-blockers, regardless. A version that actually paid for reading the site without ads or tracking (at higher expense) would be welcome.
Mans R@Niklas @dangoodin That would be pretty steep for a single article when you can get a full printed issue for roughly the same amount. I agree though, there ought to be a simple way to pay a sensible amount for occasional reading. There's no way I'm paying full subscription price for all the publications where I read (in full) one or two articles per month.
@mansr @dangoodin sometimes I do buy full printed issues for just one article. Fair prices also depend on the kind of article.
But sure, pricing needs to be fair and I‘m certain that there are people out there who are better in determining a fair price than I am.
But sure, pricing needs to be fair and I‘m certain that there are people out there who are better in determining a fair price than I am.