As a consumer, I don't want to do this because I don't want to pull out my credit card to pay $0.01. I think they're hard to make work on a small scale. So an a

As a consumer, I don't want to do this because I don't want to pull out my credit card to pay $0.01. I think they're hard to make work on a small scale. So an aggregate of people say putting $10 into a news pool, and each paying $.01 cent to read, and the news pool paying the providers, might make more sense. The micropayment could be like "credits", and may be refunded.