Tell HN: A sustainable pay per read model for Online News
Paying for online news is not affordable because it means paying ~ $5 to $10 for each of many news agencies(WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, Nytimes etc). However, I wouldn't mind having an account with all of them and paying for only what I read that month. Say $1@ WSJ, $2 at Bloomberg, $0 at Nytimes for the month of May. If micro payments are not sustainable, pooling them over a month should make it so..
Why write it here?
I'm hoping someone who works for such news agencies read HN :-) and takes this idea.
This way, we pay for the content. We can demand that the content is served without tracking ads and encourage unbiased journalism.