How are you handling the payments?
We've been discussing when we want to ask the users for their payment information. We want the sign up process to be as fast and painless as possible, so we might give the first article away for free, and only ask for payment information if the reader decides to buy a second article.
Once a user has saved a payment method to their profile, they won't be bothered about that aspect ever again when buying articles, we just charge them once at the end of the month for all the articles they've purchased that month.
As for the volume we would have to do; Stripe for instance charges 30 cents plus 2.9% for each charge, so the first article a user buys per month pretty much covers the flat fee, after that the percentage acts the same regardless of volume.
Great feedback though! Keep up with the questions.
As for the market, luckily we're based in London which is home to many of the most reputable news outlets in the world. We're already in talks with some of them, but it is indeed a hard industry to try to disrupt.