No subscription to online magazines or content streaming services. When you notice something you like, you pay for it: one article, one TV-show at at time.
Artificially bundling stuff together is unnatural in the Internet.
No subscription to online magazines or content streaming services. When you notice something you like, you pay for it: one article, one TV-show at at time.
Artificially bundling stuff together is unnatural in the Internet.
I'm vaguely for the idea of micropayments, as long they're actually micro (10⁻⁶). Even 10 cents for a piece of content seems somehow too much, because it all adds up. If we do the napkin math, large newspapers like the NYT might not be able to sustain themselves in that new world:
> 4500 (staff size) * 50000 (average yearly salary) / ~10M (audience) = $23 (required revenue per subscriber)
And this doesn't even account for office rent, travel expenses etc.
This is how most people think about software too, since FOSS started.
Then I discovered Unix/Linux and so it was the last piece of software I bought.