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Message: [QUOTE="asteinindc, post: 4673550, member: 12220"] Outlets have experimented with the charge per article approach. I'm not sure why it hasn't caught on more. But for some reason the economics have not worked. Maybe the issue is the payment portals/structure? Bundling publications is something that does actually happen right now. Gannet, for example. Even the NYTs. They own 16 regional papers and The Athletic. The model works, i suppose, if you're a behemoth. But I doubt a mid size paper would enter into some sort of cooperative agreement because, frankly, there really isn't any large scale reader base for some subscription service that gets you 5 different types of regional news. The hard truth is my industry is pretty screwed. Individualized news offerings with subscription fee service can work. But the number of people employed by that model is, by definition, really small. The trends will continue going downward. [/QUOTE]