What People Are Saying
“The cost of being informed” is too high! I can afford subscriptions to Boston Globe, NYT, WSJ, WashPost but most can’t. That’s a problem. Reading laterally reduces polarization. Pay-per-read like @axate or @SesamyOpen or apps like @MySpotlightNews solve this. Platforms fear it.
— Heidi Legg (@heidilegg) June 14, 2023
Wow! Hello @newsmediaorg & all publishers, re my tweet about the frustration of potential new customers to lack of micropayment options - there is a solution👇. C’mon - what are you waiting for? Surely this is a win,win. https://t.co/u1a6iHdNhG
— Tina Stowell (@tinastowell) July 9, 2022
.@axate is the one that got past a first hearing and my advice to give up because @dominicyoung thought it through. It offers publishers the opportunity to cap how many times a reader can may in a month and reduces transaction costs, monetizing an otherwise nonmonetized market.
— Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) November 4, 2022
That is why we introduced the @axate function. You can buy single articles when you decide you can and want to. Hope that helps. And thank you for your support.
— James Mitchinson (@JayMitchinson) September 6, 2022
I'm really hoping there's higher adoption of Axate, which allows news websites to charge per day or even per article payments so you can dip in and out of news sites that you don't currently have a subscription to
— Jon Sansom (@jonsansom) March 12, 2022
What @axate also solves is @atrupar's use case: how does he pay for access to an article from a publication in a market he does not live in and likely will never subscribe to and how does that publisher make incremental money from him?
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) June 19, 2022
Why can’t they put up an interface that lets us pay per article read. Why should I have to pay for a subscription to The Nation just to read @ElieNYC? I can go to a Mets game without buying a season ticket. I can take the 7 train to Flushing without paying for a monthly pass.
— Dave Winer (@davewiner) July 16, 2022
@axate seem to have an interesting solution, looks like they use a wallet on their own platform and then bundle the payments to the news outlets
— Patrick Ryan (@ry_paddy) March 11, 2022
Take a look at @axate . It does exactly what this thread demands.
— Neil Thackray (@NeilThackray) January 3, 2022
Have you heard of @axate? They went the distance and built out micropayments for article access. https://t.co/RdwvEIJzER
— NYC ghost🗽 (@NYCdisinterest) January 4, 2022
Why can’t I pay for a single article? My budget has no room for any more subs, but I absolutely have more than enough change to pay for a single story. I can pay $1 to own a copy of a physical newspaper for the day, why can’t I pay $1 to have full website access for 24hrs? @axate
— c.knight ✊️ (@nh_cknight) November 30, 2021
Big media players, please sign up to a pay per article provider such as @axate.
— Mark Papp (@MarkP7803) October 8, 2021
I doubt I'll ever pay for subscriptions to your publications, but I would happily pay for articles I want to read. https://t.co/btVZtZirg7
I really hope @axate does well as a company. I believe it's the only viable future of journalism. Paying a nominal fee per article rather than subscribing to entire newspapers or sites makes a lot of sense to me.
— Aidan Sansom (@AidanSansom) October 7, 2021
I wish we could get a pay-per-article model for digital newspapers and such. Like, I don’t want to do a full subscription to the LA Times to read one article, but I’d toss a couple bucks at it so the journalist can get paid.
— All Moderna-ed Up (@LizKtotheB) September 26, 2021
I subscribe to 3 newspapers, 3 journals, & 2 magazines. I believe in supporting journalists & writers. I wish there was a pay per article option as well. There are a couple articles behind a pay wall right now that I really want to read, but I cant subscribe to everything!
— Christina Nosek should be writing. (@ChristinaNosek) July 31, 2021
Yes. @axate offers a solution if publishers were smart enough to see the need to offer alternatives.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) July 9, 2021
Uh, this is amazing! @nytimes @TheAtlantic @orlandosentinel @newyorker @MiamiHerald.... get on board please! These are all pubs that I either can't access at all or I run out of free content every month. I would totally pay for this.
— Mickele Dausman🌠 (@MickeleDausman) April 29, 2021
Yes, I use the Pay as you go thing with Axate which is really good 👏 easily the best source for local politics news
— Owen Winter (@OwenWntr) April 20, 2021
I just came across @axate on @popbitch - top up money into your account 25p per article once you’ve spent 50p articles are free for 7 days. Seems like a good system
— Michael Eppy (@Meppyldn) April 8, 2021
So I like Twitter because I get to pick a wide range of news sources & perspectives
— Nigel Watson (@NigelAWatson) January 20, 2021
Choice is available - for anyone who wants it
I think newspapers would all benefit from joining @axate which allows micro-payments (50p/article) if I want to read a single article from a paper
Man this is such a great system. I really hope this wins out. I hate the current system of "pick and choose which couple papers you need to subscribe to".
— Nick Stoler (@NickStoler) November 27, 2020
Popbitch uses Axate on a pay-per-article basis and it works perfectly.
— Laura (@florabynight) June 27, 2020
I don’t know if this is still the case, but when I initially signed up, there was upper limit on how much you could spend each week - once you’d reached that level, all content was free.
Hello, World!
Nice piece about @thelambpub in today’s @Telegraph online. Have to subscribe but can get a couple of free articles. Wish @Telegraph had @axate. https://t.co/iF0fhELkIp
— Anji Clarke (@AnjiClarke) November 26, 2020
I saw the online headline was more moderate, though I couldn't read the story as I don't subscribe and not living in Dallas, that won't happen. I wish metro papers used @axate
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) October 24, 2020
it's time for my weekly call to beg newspapers to allow for a micropayments option so people can pay to read individual pieces online instead of having to subscribe
— Eva Short✨ (@evadiminutive) October 11, 2020
Ooh name checked too! I have no complaints about our local press. I find they present a balanced view of life in the borough. I still buy a paper copy sometimes but more importantly I pay o via @axate to read online.
— Cllr Amy Tisi 🔸 (@amy_tisi) September 26, 2020
An entire subscription to read one article isn't a viable pricing model. 3 free per month helps, but doesn't generate any revenue. We've needed micropayments for 20 years, but we still don't have them.
— Bob Kerns (@BobKerns) September 5, 2020
Axate is the future for many local newspapers as they embrace the digital future. Journalism has value. https://t.co/3iSN7PJwgr
— Graham Smith (@GrahamSmithCR) July 30, 2020
Pay per article is my only hope really and 50p would be perfect. I haven't bought a paper in over 20 years (and probably only as many as a can count on 2 hand) so I am in a market the media have yet to tap.
— Iain (@sol_energy) June 25, 2020
The industry is crying out for a cross-platform micropayments system. I would say in the pennies range. I would probably read a tonne of 5/10p articles across different providers. And still subscribe to The Times. But the ‘all or nothing’ approach does seem like lost revenue.
— HoggGoblin (@HoggGoblin) June 26, 2020
I have found @axate super easy and friction-free for exactky this
— SeanMacGabhann (@SeanMacGabhann) April 19, 2020
Something like this will definitely become industry standard
Does it promote clickbait articles? Maybe. Depends on what the comparison is with?
Current model of “buy 6 or more subscriptions” not working for most https://t.co/0enLq9EVlZ
Axate(Formerly Agate) offer the a nice micropayments method, which I like. For publications which I don't read regularly, that's the way to go, with monthly sub as an option. I buy the private eye, but I can't afford a regular sub for anything else.
— Isaac (@IsaacReidGuest) April 19, 2020
I would love to see a third party site whereby I can pay to access a certain number of articles per month across all paywalled media sites - with easy credit top ups when more are needed. I’m a journalist so definitely not against paying but don’t feel I can afford all of them!
— Emma Sheppard (@EmmalouSheppard) April 19, 2020
I'm pretty sure The Times used to sell 24 hour access. I'd pay for that but I wouldn't sign up to a £26 a month DD. Some kind of cross-outlet subscription/micropayment model is the future
— kay-star royco (@disco_clone) April 19, 2020
Super innovative subscription model from a publication all fight fans should consider.
— Alan Dawson (@AlanDawsonSport) April 12, 2020
Boxing News is a winning brand. Everyone knows Tris. Cant beat it. https://t.co/m5nH1YvXN9
If every publisher signed up for this every publisher would be better off. Some by a little, some by a lot - but everyone. https://t.co/UCeWonK4am
— Neil Thackray (@neilthackray) February 15, 2020
@axate would have been so helpful here! Come on @Telegraph. Never going subscribe to you but might have casually bought an article featuring my husband’s pub. Don’t you want the ££££?
— Anji Clarke (@AnjiClarke) February 16, 2020
There is @axate - amazing system more folk should use
— Theodora Sutcliffe (山婷) (@escapeartistes) November 27, 2019
I’d never heard of Axate before. It’s a really cool idea.
— Stefan Bienkowski (@SBienkowski) January 30, 2020
Agree with this so much - Axate is genius and I'm SURE it would work for all kinds of media. Journalism is worth paying for!
— Graeme Patfield (@GraemePatfield) November 26, 2019
Something like @axate is where Johnston Press should be going. I will pay £5 a month for the Athletic because it is packed with great writers and loads of content I want. The same can't be said for regional papers and nationals, price up your articles and give the choice.
— Tom Scott (@TomScott1) September 6, 2019
.@axate also allows subscription options but the casual payment is ideal for browsers. No other users in Scotland yet, but several elsewhere: https://t.co/OQyY1mkfPh https://t.co/bsbcJA6sh4
— The Lochside Press (@LochsidePress) May 9, 2023
Seconded for @axate . A model I can get behind, and actually properly fund good journalism where I see it.
— Aidan Sansom (@AidanSansom) March 27, 2023
Social media is doing a good job of killing journalism, whether intentional or not. The answer is conceptually simple. The monetization and access to online content has to be improved via a handful of universal systems (e.g., @axate), not a million cumbersome go-it-alone efforts.
— Frank Humphreys (@FrankHumphreys) December 17, 2022
I wish they would use something like @axate to allow “micro payments” (30-50p per article)…
— Nigel Watson (@NigelAWatson) September 27, 2022
I’d happily pay this for various local articles…but probably won’t “sign up” to a single paper (have @TheEconomist & @reactionlife subs)@BelTel@irish_news @News_Letter
There is a model I think could work, called @axate (and that will act as a bat signal for its founder to explain). If enough pubs used its platforms, there would be more revenue from nonsubscribers and more sampling to convert to subscription.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) July 16, 2022
This. Why is nobody looking at this? I would pay so much more in the pay per article model across websites, rather than being forced to pay monthly/yearly subscription charges to a platform I'm sure I won't be using in the near future. 🤦♂️ https://t.co/XzqaNwbBOA
— Anirudh (@aninymous_) June 29, 2022
News sites would make so much more money if they transitioned to a pay per article method. No I’m not subscribing to you for this random article I didn’t care that much about, but I will pay a dollar right now to satisfy my curiosity.
— Ian T Butler (@kinglycrow2) July 2, 2022
Once again, I am begging online newspaper websites to let me pay per article rather than forcing me to subscribe to read one thing.
— Ace in Your Face (she/her) (@HippieGeekGirl) May 4, 2022
I'm not even complaining about the paywall, I'd just like a less freaking annoying one.
And this leaves a huge spectrum of people who would like to pay per article rather than lock themselves with multiple subscriptions.
— Tarun Ravindran (@TarunRavindran) April 24, 2022
I know of startups like @axate
that has been trying to sensitize publications via an alt casual payments approach. Matter of time. https://t.co/m39f5MQXoo
Wish the FT would join @axate so I could read the article.
— A Slight Return 🇺🇦 (@ASlightReturn1) April 15, 2022
This is yet another reason to go for the @axate pay per article model.
— Mark Papp (@MarkP7803) March 12, 2022
It always blows my mind that more publishers don't use micro-transactions as a route to monetisation. I'd so much rather pay per article vs pay a subscription.
— Michael Mander (@michael_mander) April 19, 2022
I first came across @axate via Popbitch back in 2018 and thought 'this is revolutionary'... https://t.co/eirlaOBOCh
Are you familiar with @axate ? They could be the ones to provide it.
— Linda_Ruth (@Linda_Ruth) January 4, 2022
Agreed, its noticeably dipped in quality this year, some articles recently have been hair-raising. I've ended my subscription as a result but wis they'd join a digital purse provider like @axate as I'd be happy to pay to read their better, more balanced journalists.
— A Slight Return (@ASlightReturn1) January 1, 2022
I wish that more new sites would have *pay per article" option for articles behind a paywall! I really want to read the NBA vaccine story on Rolling Stones, but not paying $8 for one article. I would pay $1 for it if it was available.
— An Agent of Nuance (@kahoutkast) September 26, 2021
Every day I'm asked to write/contribute for nothing/"publicity". Is that fair? Surely free content and how we consume it is one of the reasons the media is in crisis. With so much quality journalism behind paywalls (quite rightly) I'm happy to discover @axate#fairtradejournalism
— Juliet Kinsman (@JulietKinsman) September 17, 2021
Just had a look, it’s a great model. You have an online “wallet” that you top up, rather than a new transaction every time. Ideal
— Amy Frearson (@AmyFrearson) July 6, 2021
Seriously! They could charge a premium!
— sarah maclean (@sarahmaclean) July 25, 2021
@axate are doing this.
— Anji Clarke (@AnjiClarke) July 16, 2021
What you are looking for is @axate. Tell your favorite publications to sign up.https://t.co/qPB5VcGTuS
— Ben Paulos (@BenPaulos) June 4, 2021
Another vote for @axate.
— Mark Papp (@MarkP7803) April 8, 2021
As soon as the likes of FT, Wash Po, NYT, Times etc. allow article by article subscription the better.
I can't afford subscriptions to all media for the couple of articles per week I want, but I would happily pay for those articles.
100% agree - which is why it’s baffling that services like @axate aren’t a lot more widespread.
— Benjamin Frost (@ben_frost) January 16, 2021
Hopefully things like @axate will catch on 🤞
— Allan Lewis (@WaspInTheLotus) April 15, 2021
There are a few companies doing this; Axate is the main one in the US, but you can only read articles from publications that have joined. I like the idea though. Google News Initiative is working on a solution, too. We'll see what comes of it.
— Tom Lappas (@tomlappas) March 26, 2021
I also love micropayment systems that support pay per article from a banked amount (e.g., Agate). I've been using that with some UK pubs and it's great; I can access content from multiple pubs without a subscription, but still pay for access.
— LT²⁸ 💙BLM ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 (@newkewbytube17) August 2, 2020
I'd be ecstatic to pay for journalism in a way that doesn't require subscribing to every site individually. CC @axate
— Nick Stoler (@NickStoler) December 20, 2020
These guys are rocking micropayments for Local and independents https://t.co/H8oSXduYBe
— Clare Cook (@cecook) May 19, 2020
That I could get behind. I'd be willing to pay per article on-demand. I'd probably even end up spending more than the subscription I just refuse to have any more auto-renewing subscriptions in my life.
— Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) July 11, 2020
I'm 100% on board with paying for content.
— Paul Murphy (@paulbz) July 1, 2020
But I am never going to buy and maintain separate subscriptions for WSJ, NYTimes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, TheInformation, FT..
If someone figures this out we might actually have a thriving publisher business again.
Axate is amazing for that.
— Theodora Sutcliffe (@escapeartistes) April 19, 2020
I can’t get it anywhere near me at the moment so I’m reading online but paying 20p a day through my Axate account. Bargain!
— Cllr Amy Tisi 🔸 (@amy_tisi) April 17, 2020
Seems like there is some debate on Twitter today about paywalls and how we’re going to fund journalism so here is my two cents. I believe people should pay for quality journalism, that’s why at Express and Advertiser we have Axate
— Grace Witherden (@GraceW_BM) April 19, 2020
Our local paper has a system where some articles are behind a paywall, but you top up a wallet and pay per article. I keep my wallet topped up & happy to do so because I value the journalism.
— James O'Flynn (@jamesoflynn) April 16, 2020
Guardian invites payments. I pay a monthly £ I think reflects my consumption.
I don't know why everyone hasn't moved to an @axate style system en masse, so I can happily pay a reasonable amount of actual monies to read both.
— DISTANT VWORP (@adjwilson) April 19, 2020
I also hope @axate smashes it - it lets users pay for local news content via micropayments. 👉 It's bloody hard to make money in the media at the moment; the industry needs as many smart commercial models as it can find!
— Amy Lewin (@amyrlewin) February 21, 2020
We're all going to switch to micropayments someday and be a lot happier for it https://t.co/0UELg7BcRG @axate
— Hannah Godofsky (@h_thoreson) February 20, 2020
The subscription model too often isn't "elastic" enough. There ought to be a way of having some kind of digital wallet that allows you to pay a small sum for content that you want at the point of delivery- like an Oyster card for content.
— Tim Stillman (@Stillberto) April 19, 2020
What really irritates me is there is no option just to pay, say, 30p, to read the one article (like wot @axate offers)
— Andrew Denny (@albiondumsday) January 21, 2020
The upshot is you use up your weekly ration of free articles on accidental & idle click-throughs of stuff you wouldn't have paid for.
I’d like access to ad-free Guardian, Independent so they get rewarded. I’d want access to paywalled content from The Times, Telegraph, NYT etc.
— hywel (@daycoder) December 19, 2019
Appreciate what you’re doing, and that signing up need not cost like a subscription.
👍👍...I use @axate - it’s great as payment method
— Nigel Watson (@NigelAWatson) February 19, 2020
My vote goes to Axate and overall allowing "users to make casual payments for premium products without the commitment of a subscription"
— Marija Slavkovik (@MSlavkovik) February 18, 2020
I don't understand why more publications haven't opted for a micropayment system like @popbitch, it just seems like a wildly simple and very Good idea
— Eva Short, festive edition ✨ (@evadiminutive) December 20, 2019
@FT behind a paywall and I have too many other subs to want to add another. But @reactionlife use @axate on a pay per read basis, and if @FT adopted that I’d definitely use it
— Phil Riley (@radioriley) August 8, 2019
👉Axate wallet. Pay per view, capped every day. Answers Marie's point that the subscription hurdle is high, yet there is a huge unmonetized casual market of readers happy to throw pennies at good writing.
— Andrew Orlowski (@AndrewOrlowski) November 26, 2019
I can't afford a subscription but I've created an @axate account so I can read the occasional article! Well worth it!
— David Carr (@MrCarrReads) September 8, 2023
🤣 🤣 🤣 That's major old school, rather pay 20p on Axate 🤣🤣
— adrianbann (@bigthing1) May 3, 2023
I have a couple of subscriptions to news sites, and use free article allowances on others. Good journalism is worth paying for, and not just relying on ad revenue. If more sites used per-article pay models like Axate that would be really helpful
— Jon Sansom (@jonsansom) March 27, 2023
There needs to be a way to pay per article. Hopefully, the rebuilding of local media includes a way for people to pay for the quality reporting that interests them without paying for a full subscription that doesn't meet their needs.
— morbrem (@morbrem) January 24, 2023
popbitch does this via Axate for their longform stuff and it works pretty well https://t.co/pplU6AjGSC
— Tala the occasionally zinemaking alien (@Jenna_Appleseed) October 29, 2022
Please, @IrishTimes, allow pay per article using the @axate model or similar.
— Mark Papp (@MarkP7803) July 9, 2022
I will not buy a subscription to your paper, nor any other that I don't already have, but would happily pay to read specific articles, especially those by @fotoole.
I'm losing out, but so are you. https://t.co/dhoVKZ68K6
I use @axate to read @Popbitch articles.
— Fionnuala Kilbane (@Mrs_FK) June 28, 2022
I wish you could have an online account that works across multiple media and you can pay day 25 cents to a dollar per article you want to read.
— Lou Garou (@cfwpepw) June 20, 2022
It always blows my mind that more publishers don't use micro-transactions as a route to monetisation. I'd so much rather pay per article vs pay a subscription.
— Michael Mander (@michael_mander) April 19, 2022
I first came across @axate via Popbitch back in 2018 and thought 'this is revolutionary'... https://t.co/eirlaOBOCh
I'm loving the idea behind @axate, just been reading about it, really nice work on that and I hope it grows! I can see this working in tandem with subscriptions too though for publications I love - I just don't want 5 subscriptions
— Barnaby (@Southclaws) March 11, 2022
That is an excellent idea. I subscribe to a major newspaper & a local one and a major news magazine but I cannot subscribe to every one that someone posts on Twitter. I definitely want to pay for good journalism, but article by article would be so appealing. Fingers crossed.
— Virginia, Nasty Woman (@johnson_docent) January 3, 2022
pay-per-item (like the @axate model) than force subscriptions because the value to the end user is a lot less than @mpigliucci seems to think here.
— Tane Piper (@tanepiper) January 4, 2022
So again to go back to the first point - the problem is the system, not the end user here.
@Telegraph This is important - I’d like to read it but I’m not going to subscribe to your paper. If I could buy articles on a per view basis I would. Please offer readers something like @axate. https://t.co/jqyn7rlExA
— Anji Clarke (@AnjiClarke) October 10, 2021
They need to come up with a service where you can buy articles a la carte. I can't afford to subscribe to NYT, LAT, WAPO, and God knows how many other news organizations at the same time, but I would happily pay $1.00 per article.
— (((BikeBrh))) (@bikebrh) September 26, 2021
I'm not so sure. In an online world where people have access to many more paid publications than they used to, a la carte or limited subscription is probably more appealing than it used to be.
— ooob (@HonorataER) September 22, 2021
Popbitch do a thing where you have an Axate wallet and paid 50p an article up to a maximum of X when everything became free. I genuinely wish more places would take up this model.
— RJ Barker (@dedbutdrmng) July 22, 2021
There's a pay per article model started by @axate that I push at any opportunity. It needs more publications, but it'll be exactly what I want when it gets there.
— Mark Papp (@MarkP7803) June 4, 2021
Remember that pay per article model I wanted? 👇 https://t.co/TCfe6SorEY
— Bess Auer (@Bess_Auer) April 29, 2021
Take a look at @axate. Digital wallet that allows users to pay per article. Be good to pressurise subscription only publishers to deploy this useful tool.
— Bellevue Partners (@Bellevuepartner) March 28, 2021
I want to read individual articles from a range of sources (and am quite happy to pay for them - but don’t want a full subscription to every site)
— Benjamin Frost (@ben_frost) April 8, 2021
Need a model where you can pay by the article - companies like @axate have the tech for this, but not enough media outlets use it.
The best system that I have seen for micro-payments to newspapers is from Axate. A little green panel sits to the side of the article, and partway down the article is "buy the rest" button... pic.twitter.com/rH0K0DCvHZ
— Alan Peery (@AlanPeery) December 18, 2020
This is worth the 50p on Axate (really like micropayments as I am not going to subscribe to Reaction) https://t.co/e6Z8npbdN9
— Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles) January 11, 2021
Why oh why are they not trialling something like @axate I.e. asking people to pay, not donate https://t.co/1mB5FD7WZv
— Phil Riley (@radioriley) July 16, 2020
@axate have a nice model where you can pay to read one article. I've used it for the long reads on popbitch where they charge something like 30p for an article. more places should use them :)
— Claire Petrol (@clairepetrol) January 6, 2021
A paywall is never going to work for newspapers. I don't want to pin myself down to just one paper all the time and I don't want to subscribe to all of them all the time. If this article for instance was say 99p, I'd probably buy it. Something like @axate is badly needed. https://t.co/1J2vMIzRek
— Tom Scott (@TomScott1) April 19, 2020
Long but important thread explaining why casual payment is not micropayment and why media owners need to experiment with something other than subs and ads. This really works. Read it. https://t.co/2VPTlV0iHL
— Neil Thackray (@neilthackray) June 24, 2020
I know the argument against this (so does Marie, see her follow-up tweet), but I really think it would make sense. I would happily set up pay-as-you-go accounts with newspapers, or they could join something like Axate which already exists. https://t.co/wAsOfesLfo
— Alex von Tunzelmann (@alexvtunzelmann) April 19, 2020
Would love some form of micro-payment per article across multiple news sites. Could also apply to blogs and things, rewarding independent writers too. Of course the click-baitery would go insane.
— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) April 19, 2020
Some form of seamless micropayments system that allows you to click & buy individual stories from any publisher rather than take out multiple paywall subs just seems to make sense. Sure it would encourage outlets to produce more exclusives & generate more income from readers.
— Graeme Cleland (@gracle) January 30, 2020
Micro payments have to be the way forward - rather than a year-long sub that's tough to cancel and expensive by comparison, just seems out of kilter with user experience
— James McManus (@JamesMcManus1) April 19, 2020
I will go miles out of my way to read newspaper articles without having to pay for a subscription, and if there’s no way to read one for free then I usually just won’t read it. And yet if there was an easy, a la carte way to pay 10 cents for each article, I would 100% do that.
— DB 🦑 (@dennisbhooper) January 23, 2020
I wish the rags would switch over to pay-by-article like @axate - we'd gladly pay 10p or 20p here and there to read this stuff.
— Andrew Denny (@albiondumsday) February 18, 2020
Now that pretty much every serious online publication is behind a paywall, either fully or partially, there needs to be a micropayment option that allows one to pay on a per article basis.
— Toby SCS (@Toby_CS) January 13, 2020
do you have an opinion on micropayment vs all-or-nothing paywalls? I've used and like @agatehq, paying 25p to read an article, and I'm surprised more sites don't use it. I'd like to read and contribute to lots of publications, without them expecting my undying loyalty
— Thomas Eagle (@thomaseagle) June 20, 2019
I get so evangelical about Axate and Popbitch using it and I cannot understand why Guardian, Telegraph, Times etc won’t use it. I don’t want a standing order with everyone when some weeks I might read a lot and then might not read that site for weeks at a time.
— Imogen Pelham (@immmy) November 26, 2019