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Is there potential for a news article broker to sit between the readers and the major news sites? For example you credit an account on a news broker then when younwant to read an article the article access fee is deducted from your account. That avoids readers needed to subscribe to many newspapers or magazines and would provide a more friction free way to access specific articles.

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Yes, something like that would work. I guess the biggest problem is to get the major publishers as well as the readers to work with this broker.

Flattr had a similar problem, you could pay-per-article via their button, but as I understand the adoption just wasn't sufficient, by both publishers and readers.

Maybe if publishers could add a micropayment button that used ApplePay/GooglePay/AmazonPay/PayPal, so that readers wouldn't have to sign up for an additional service and could just use their credit card in a one-click transaction.

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