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0 pointsskissane5y ago0 comments

> People don't want to pay for news. They don't like ads, but will tolerate them to a point, and most definitely don't want to pay for subscriptions

I'm sure I'm not the only person here who subscribes to LWN. People with a special interest in a particular topic are willing to pay subscriptions to specialist news outfits covering that topic. Not enough for them to grow rich but enough for many of them to survive. The real struggle is retaining subscribers to mass-market generalist news as opposed to niche speciality news sources.

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CGamesPlay5y ago

Yeah, I think this is why GP said "especially international news". The more producers capable of producing the content, the lower value the content is.

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0 pointsskissane5y ago0 comments

> People don't want to pay for news. They don't like ads, but will tolerate them to a point, and most definitely don't want to pay for subscriptions

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CGamesPlay5y ago

Yeah, I think this is why GP said "especially international news". The more producers capable of producing the content, the lower value the content is.

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