Subscription Hell
I am not sure why it is so fundamentally difficult for publications to understand what people want.<p>The issue many people, myself included, have with subscriptions are that you pay $x &#x2F; month whether or not you read that month&#x27;s product. And whether or not you read every article or just one. So for me, as a consumer, my &quot;price per article&quot; goes from small to literally infinity (pay but read zero articles).<p>Now the pay per article model works so much better. You can charge me to read a single article but I pay nothing if I read nothing. This is the model that blendle.com uses and my experience was that even though their &quot;per article&quot; price was much higher than I originally thought reasonable (9 cents to 50 cents) I was paying basically $50 a month for subscriptions to the publications that I read (WSJ, Economist, NYT, WaPo, etc) and with Blendle I end up putting maybe $15 or $25 per month into my Blendle wallet. So its half as expensive for me and I still get to read, advertising free, any article in those publications. Blendle&#x27;s money back if its click bait policy is the clincher. When you read a lemon you get your money back.<p>I win (save money) they win (they get paid for their journalism).