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As a UK resident I think the Times missed a trick in their pricing model. Rampant speculation follows: I expect a decent chunk of their visitors are people who
by intranation 16y ago
As a UK resident I think the Times missed a trick in their pricing model. Rampant speculation follows: I expect a decent chunk of their visitors are people who receive links via some other Internet medium (social networks, blogs etc.) and who click through to read it. These people are now instantly turned off. If The Times had a decent micropayments model in place (say £1 for 10 articles) this might be a lot more attractive. Unfortunately I don't think Murdoch cares about casual readers.
- seldo 16y ago"A decent micropayments model" is quite the line-item requirement. Nobody's built one yet, and we've been trying for 15 years.
- mkramlich 16y agoApple and Amazon have gotten closer than anybody else in the mass online market though. Tons of people routinely buy 99 cent items through them. Yes it needs to go farther to say 1 cent transactions or less for it to be true micropayments. I think these 2 players plus Google and PayPal are probably best positioned to eventually deliver a true general-purpose micropayments service.