Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
Some people have said news should charge by article. I think that model makes some sense but I don't know much about newspaper economics. The main problem is their real revenue was NEVER subscribers, so it never was about if enough people are subscribing although less are, but the main revenue was always ads. But the ads as the main source of revenue model doesn't work anymore.

I think charging by article might work because noone wants to subscribe to a whole bunch of newspapers just to read articles because they want to read this article here and that one there, that gets very expensive very fast. But I don't know it could be there is no model that works. But it's not like they are attempting any either, so we've tried nothing and it didn't work.
For me, the problem with charging by the article would be that I don't know if it would be worth paying for until after I read it. I enjoy reading a paper newspaper, but - as has been said - there aren't that many left and they have definitely gone up in price for what is actually being produced.