Seems like micropayments would be tough for a newspaper unless it could leverage a massive audience already with credit cards enabled (see iTunes, Amazon, etc).

Seems like micropayments would be tough for a newspaper unless it could leverage a massive audience already with credit cards enabled (see iTunes, Amazon, etc). Otherwise the barrier to get customers to enter their payment information would be too high IMO. Seems like news browsing habits are still typically controlled through websites as opposed to apps (anecdotally - I don't have data on this), which also makes it difficult to drive enough users for a micropayments model to work.