It seemed obvious to me in 1994 that Web content syndication was eventually going to be the answer to your question ("How can I afford to subscribe to 15 different providers?")<p>People laughed at me then, they laughed at me when I said it again around 2000, and they'll laugh at me now.... but that still doesn't change the fact that it needs to happen, and eventually will.<p>It could be that the coming wave of tablet/e-reader platforms will be the last piece of the syndication puzzle.  It's a safe guess that the New York Times will have someone at the Apple event next week, pitching a subscription deal.  If they offer me access to several other major metro papers/special-interest broadsheets along with that NYT subscription, they've got a deal.