SGit Newsroom · reading account

Your reading account

Every page on sgit.ai has a price of a few pence, and you pay for the share of it you read: scroll a tenth of the way down and you pay a tenth. You started with £5.00 of credit. If a page was not worth it, say so at its foot and it is not charged. What you read is also what builds your graph below, and your newsroom: a front page for each of your personas.

Kept in this browser, and only here. The balance, the history and the receipts are in this browser's storage; nothing is sent anywhere and there is no account. A new browser, a private window or clearing site data starts again with £5.00 and no history, so with no personalisation. It never blocks a page and it never nags: credit can go below zero, the balance says so in the top bar, and that is all. How the meter works, and why we run it this way.

What things cost, read to the end

Page	Price
An article published in the last seven days	10p
An older article	5p
A newsletter issue	3p
A desk note	2p
A collection	2p
Any other page: docs, vaults, the network, the newsroom	1p
The homepage, the subscribe page and your account	free

The price of a page read to the end; you pay that times the share you scrolled through, never less than a tenth. One charge per page per browser session: reading further later tops the same charge up, and going back costs nothing more. Reading the markdown twin of a page, or the newsroom wire, is not metered.

Why it works like this

To find out whether people pay for reading, a few pence at a time, when nothing forces them to and what they get back is a site that knows what they read and picks for them, with no account and nobody else holding the history. The plan, the numbers we expect and the date we check them are in going live with the reading meter; who could cheat it, and why that is allowed, is in who will game the reading meter.