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The various online newspapers and magazines need to get together in a cartel-style fashion and just force a micropayment system. Just charge one miserable penn
by mynameishere 18y ago
The various online newspapers and magazines need to get together in a cartel-style fashion and just force a micropayment system. Just charge one miserable penny to a view an article. Once it gets going, it would work.
- patio11 18y agoThe penny gap makes that far less attractive than Adwords, which is already a poor option in most cases.
- ivankirigin 18y agoThat kind of slicing might not be a good idea. People don't calculate value that well. Clay Shirky has interesting ideas on this: http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html I think he has an overly narrow definition of micropayments though. Mandating $0.25 for an article isn't the only way to make a micropayment. RockBand, iTunes, MapleStory, etc. are all excellent examples of micropayment platforms working today.