Here's the issue, if you wanted to read every interesting article posted to HN on a given week who would have to be subscribed to 15-20 different paid services... which I'm sure you'll agree is ridiculous.
Currently I subscribe to Disney+ and Amazon Prime only, because I was only using Netflix for maybe two hours per week and for me, that's not worth the price.
If I use the same logic for online magazines and newspapers, there is no online text content that I use for more than two hours per week and as such, the ridiculous subs prices make no sense to me. Also, it's highly likely I would end up subscribing to say NYT, and then that week all I really want to read is something on Forbes or Bloomberg and nothing on NYT, or a similar scenario. There is too much fragmentation and the value proposition just isn't there. It's like there were 15 different streaming services with content roughly divided between them.
Sure people need to make a living but the current model just doesn't work for me. Maybe if I was "rich" I would just pay for every text based publication out there, but I'm not, and paying for something I use so little makes no sense.
Currently I subscribe to Disney+ and Amazon Prime only, because I was only using Netflix for maybe two hours per week and for me, that's not worth the price.
If I use the same logic for online magazines and newspapers, there is no online text content that I use for more than two hours per week and as such, the ridiculous subs prices make no sense to me. Also, it's highly likely I would end up subscribing to say NYT, and then that week all I really want to read is something on Forbes or Bloomberg and nothing on NYT, or a similar scenario. There is too much fragmentation and the value proposition just isn't there. It's like there were 15 different streaming services with content roughly divided between them.
Sure people need to make a living but the current model just doesn't work for me. Maybe if I was "rich" I would just pay for every text based publication out there, but I'm not, and paying for something I use so little makes no sense.