Seriously!  Think about how we deal with Android&#x2F;iPhone apps.<p>I go to Five Below or a Dollar Store and stock up on $2-$3 items that are kind of neat even venturing into the $5 range occasionally for &quot;premium garbage&quot; yet I get on the Google Play store and see a really awesome app that fills one of my needs but it&#x27;s $2!  How can someone charge $2 for THAT?  They only spent a <i>year</i> working on it and it fits my need perfectly but $2 is too much!<p>It&#x27;s really weird, for sure.<p>I think the hardest part with things like the New York Times is that a lot of us are getting our news from aggregators.  I don&#x27;t give a shit about the New York Times as a company nor any others.  I read down through places like Hacker News and click links there.  If, occasionally, it&#x27;s a link to a NYT article, I read it (or don&#x27;t.. I guess?) but otherwise, if any one of the news sites disappeared off of the face of the globe, I&#x27;d be no better or worse off.<p>Also, $8&#x2F;mon is nothing when it&#x27;s one news site but if each site begins charging, using a news aggregator is going to be a very expensive proposition...