Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers
Subscriptions are just the wrong model for news publishers.  There&#x27;s NO way I could possibly afford to subscribe to every news output I occasionally read news from, unless the subscriptions were so close to free as to be useless as a revenue source for the publisher. It&#x27;s just not going to happen.<p>What we desperately need is a real, useful micro-payments model where you can pay per-article.  I&#x27;d be happy to pay you a few cents, or a dollar, or whatever, for each of the 3 or 4 articles I read on your site per month.  But I&#x27;m not buying a subscription just to read 3 or 4 articles.  The economics just don&#x27;t work.