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Originally Posted by manfred63
I'm sure it won't. Pay-per-view is the last thing people need and want.
A paper is a daily composition of different articles arround different topics. Arts, sports, politics, fun and leisure and so fourth. That's one reason among others why subscribers like their papers.
If you want to pay per article you'd reduce a newspaper to a news agency which is something completely different. I understand that you don't want to read all articles. Well, nobody does and nobody reads all articles of a newspaper. But it's good that you have the choice to read them or not once you paid your one or two bucks or whatever the WP or NYT costs where you live.
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My friend, I understand your point, but the "complete" newspaper or magazine subscription is a thing of the past at least for the majority of the people.
Likewise a complete series of hard bounds or encyclopedia on a shelf in the den. That is not the "way we roll these days."
People want only to pay for what they specifically desire. The rest is just clutter and additional expense in these busy day. These days, few people sit in their arm chairs by the fire or in the front porch swing on Sundays reading the paper.
They want what they want and are reluctant to pay for even that if they can get away for it.
That goose is cooked. The horse has fled.
What I want now is an à la carte TV program selection.
1 program or 1 series or 1 channel
That is all I have time for and I certainly don't want to pay for anything else.