I really dislike ad driven publications. I’m not opposed to paying for quality news publication, but for something like NYT, there’s only a couple articles a month I come across that I’m really interested in reading. There problem is that there’s 4-5 other paywalled publications where I have that same issue. I’m interested in their content, I just can’t justify the subscription price for the small amount of content from them I’ll actually consume, and I really can’t justify paying subscriptions for 4-5 publications at once.
I would pay $5-10 a month for a news aggregator for paywalled publications. It could be set up in a way that the publications get paid per view of their articles, it could be opened up to independent writers as well (e.g. integrate your substack with it). Maybe even an additional fee that includes digital magazine publications as well.
I can’t imagine it would be worse for the industry (unlike Spotify), as it already seems like journalism/news is hovering above collapse. They would be making money off of people who weren’t providing revenue previously.
CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There is. It’s called Apple News+
qooqie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use this, it’s quite good. No complaints about it, no ads, reading articles doesn’t feel like a chore. I definitely recommend it
alucard@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Mostly… the advertising is disguised as top 10 articles with Amazon links. 50% journalism 40% articles 10% Reddit copied BuzzFeed “articles”
carnha@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’d love to try out Apple News, but as far as I can tell you can only access it on an Apple device, no web access, and there really don’t seem to be many good alternatives at the moment :(
berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also it’s not available in Switzerland so I can’t use it unfortunately…
The same btw goes gor movies in my oppinion. Why do I have to have 3 Streaming services for a couple hundred movies when I have 70 Million songs on evey streaming services? I hope this will eventually change…
schaeferpp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I don’t want to read full magazines. I need more or less what an RSS reader can do. But in good.
CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This isn’t just full magazines…
realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt 1 year ago
Literally this. I've never used it, but it sounds like what the OP is looking for.