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kleinbl00 · 3746 days ago · link · · parent · post: Clay Shirky: Last Call - The End of the Printed Newspaper
Clearly - they got $400 from me up front. They got more than that up front from lots of people. But that is more to my point than to yours: they need to charge more and have a bigger slush fund. That doesn't happen from micropayments.
I've mentioned De Correspondent before, haven't I? Finally found a proper explanation in English, from back when they Kickstarted it. They managed to get 15k users to pay the 60 euro fee for a year of excellent investigative journalism. That's how they could get their journalists to really explore and find depth in an online world of superficiality. They get it, you know. That's why I'm more than happy to pay for it.