idea for a canadian journalism funding model

-ideas for helping our local media with a funding/ subscriber model that may work, possibly in partnership with local libraries' digital access programs that already do some of this, get better bulk subscription prices for users' access....

1/ I haven't been using the public library very much lately, but there are ways to use it online, including accessing some paid news media for free/ covered by usage.

I wonder if Canada generally, could come up with a program whereby library users (maybe with an app?)

2/ could opt in to pay a small fee for 'enhanced' library news access, whereby people can select to some extent where they prefer some of that fee to go, which media outlets, and maybe track usage, maybe especially to help out smaller media with some consistent income...

3/ maybe sort of like a library/ non-denomenational feed reader that serves a number of media outlets, maybe people could select by their region, what is local for them, as well as specific outlets, maybe users could have a say in the system and the app as well-


4/ if a good enough model is made that serves the community interests, the country interests, the media interests and their financing, maybe it could be a model/ open source software/ program that could be shared elsewhere as well...

5/ the subscriber model might work best for smaller media outlets, who maybe may not have as much access to getting big company's ad money, but that might help the media to be more independent, maybe holding bigger media accountable when they bend to advertisers on stories


6/ they could potentially mix some flat fee for access per user with fees per view per article and similar, or like low set fees combined with a 'percentage' rate for transactions, the set fee helps to make sure small transactions get a min amnt, % helps reward popular articles.


/7

a 25 cent fee as a minimum on a 1 dollar transaction is a really high percent, but still a small fee, as long as it is set as a flat rate, not a percentage ...
a .01% fee is a small percentage on a small transaction, but scales quickly on larger transactions

You can do both


/8

You can combine rates per clicks/reads, with user defined preferences about which news they prefer and would like to support with their share of fees; so between what people read, and what they prefer to support, it is possible to give some weight to each of these.


/9

Some money for overall access and subscription to services at the outset (that the library/ feedreader app helps with algorithms to get a good bulk 'rate'; and some money per read /(per person?) per article, so you get a minimum reliable fee, and extra for good/popular story