Marketplace for News
14 Apr 10
Where is the iTunes for news articles? I hate subscriptions, and often find myself wanting to read an article from the WSJ but cannot because I don't have a subscription. Why can't I buy that one article for $.25? Why can't I have one, centralized area, where I can buy articles from a variety of news sources that I don't have full subscriptions to, or don't want to buy the whole issue of? It just makes too much sense to keep credit card info stored in one account, and then when you see an article behind a paywall you want to read, BOOM - click the "Buy with iNews for $.25" button and its yours. I think this is the best model for online news that could ever exist. It would likely have to be some sort of joint venture or coop between many media companies to succeed, however a private company could do it if there was a way to resell subscription news content. Why isn't anyone working on this?
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