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This solution is far from ideal. In the majority of cases, publishers would be selling access to a single article for a price of subscription. What we need for a healthy content market, is perhaps a micropayment system.

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I think we need more flat rates, Readly is a great example IMHO:

https://global.readly.com/en

For 10 € / month, you get a virtual newsstand with magazines from all over the world.

Sounded interesting but it looks like they’ve disallowed Australians from signing up.

That terrible. We really need access to things like this too with the News Corp/Murdoch stranglehold on he media(seriously, almost every paper looks something like this come election: http://www.jonstribling.com/wp-content/uploads/20140131-2042...)

geolocalisation is censure. It should never be accepted as a good practice.

Indeed, it’d be nice if there was a way to spoof your location without connecting to an offshore VPN (or a DNS proxy in some cases) but we just don’t seem to be there yet.

I think Google might be working on something. When I visited an Australian Fairfax newspaper yesterday (WA Today), I got a prompt inviting me to 'subscribe' to the newspaper via Google Contributor, which I was able to do. They're charging 1c per page view for an ad-free experience.

I think I only got the prompt because they detected I was using an ad-blocker though. I'm not sure it's open to everyone yet.

I think flat rates encourage consolidation, while micropayments encourage competition.

I'll put my solution up for HN's consideration - https://datajoy.us/fupm.html

We even paid out to our first couple of websites on Sept 30th! Join the party.

I think the only micropayment solution that is going to work is something like STEEM, which is growing organically and fast, because it provides a huge benefit to users, too, not just publishers. In fact the developers have just announced something relevant to this:

https://steemit.com/steem/@ned/announcing-smart-media-tokens...

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