>There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I might be getting £1 or 10p a mont

>There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I might be getting £1 or 10p a month "value" from. A "tip jar" or micropayment model to supplement subscriptions would be a great option. Unfortunately I think processing fees eat up a significant chunk of your take to the point where it's not really profitable to build a business model around it. Even if you get a great solution going, getting buy-in from the number of vendors you'd need on board would be prohibitively difficult. The only ones with the reach would either be inclined to lock it down and stick with the ad centric model (Facebook, Google) or just don't have the organizational culture to give it the attention or support it would deserve (Apple, Amazon). In the old days you could go to a corner newsstand and pick up a newspaper, even from one of those little boxes on the street. This let you just buy if there was something interesting that you needed to look at that day without committing and, importantly, without handing personal financial information to who-the-hell-even-knows. A payment infrastructure that makes this quick, easy, and cheap enough to where cost isn't a concern would be incredible.