The Dutch experiment with an iTunes model for journalism

The Netherlands’ biggest newspaper and magazine publishers have agreed to start selling individual articles for as little as €0.10 through a start-up called Blendle that aims to be the “iTunes of journalism”.

The Dutch initiative highlights how publishers are searching for new ways to make money from online content as their print businesses face declining readership and advertising revenues.

Blendle was founded in 2012 by Marten Blankesteijn and Alexander Klöpping, both aged 27.

It plans to launch in the Netherlands in April and has signed up the vast majority of publishers that produce newspapers and magazines in the country, including De Persgroep, Sanoma, Hearst and Reed Elsevier.

From the FT there is more here.