stuff in the url you want to share, get out something that they can read. Works for nearly all major newspapers in the USA, but alas not so well outside of there.
News bundling sounds pretty solid. I can see, Semafor, Axios, some of the substack individual News providers, etc. Becoming a great bundle to subscribe to.
I think it would be complicated to execute. How would you dole out the funds from the subscription revenue? Does each publisher get an equal amount? If not, how to you determine who gets how much?
Great question. Scratch Axios and Semefor. But only individual contributors. I'm sure with a little creativity and keeping greed in check, something could be developed.
To me the logical bundle is newspaper chains selling you their entire portfolio for a single fee. For example, Gannett owns tons of papers, including the Indianapolis Star where I live. I subscribe to the Star but don't get access to any other Gannett publications. The incremental cost of offering the bundle for them is zero, and would retain 100% of the revenues.
The link tax always sounded so insane to me. A good percentage of my paid subscribers come from Google. Seems crazy that Google should pay me on top of that but I’d venture to guess indie news publishers won’t get that revenue anyway. Nice to read that piece that wrapped up the problems with it. That Facebook was included is kind of wild because its algorithm barely shares news anymore anyway. I hope that law doesn’t pass here in the US
If you want to share a link to somebody but by-pass the paywall, try
https://archive.is/
stuff in the url you want to share, get out something that they can read. Works for nearly all major newspapers in the USA, but alas not so well outside of there.
Interesting trick, thank you!
News bundling sounds pretty solid. I can see, Semafor, Axios, some of the substack individual News providers, etc. Becoming a great bundle to subscribe to.
I think it would be complicated to execute. How would you dole out the funds from the subscription revenue? Does each publisher get an equal amount? If not, how to you determine who gets how much?
Great question. Scratch Axios and Semefor. But only individual contributors. I'm sure with a little creativity and keeping greed in check, something could be developed.
To me the logical bundle is newspaper chains selling you their entire portfolio for a single fee. For example, Gannett owns tons of papers, including the Indianapolis Star where I live. I subscribe to the Star but don't get access to any other Gannett publications. The incremental cost of offering the bundle for them is zero, and would retain 100% of the revenues.
I agree. Gannett can sell a great bundle that gets you access to its local news + national news via USA Today.
The link tax always sounded so insane to me. A good percentage of my paid subscribers come from Google. Seems crazy that Google should pay me on top of that but I’d venture to guess indie news publishers won’t get that revenue anyway. Nice to read that piece that wrapped up the problems with it. That Facebook was included is kind of wild because its algorithm barely shares news anymore anyway. I hope that law doesn’t pass here in the US
Yeah, laws like this just create incentives for tech platforms to place even less emphasis on news content.