We all heard about how Newspapers are going out of business because more and more of us are using online portals for our news.
But advertising, especially in this economy, is not enough to keep these online new agencies solvent. So Google has a solution:
Source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/11 … News-Sites
Looks like they are using the Google Checkout Service (similar to PayPal), to allow New sites to have us make Micro-payments for access to content.
Good idea? How much would you want to pay to see the rest of an article? Will this work better than a monthly/yearly subscription model?
But advertising, especially in this economy, is not enough to keep these online new agencies solvent. So Google has a solution:
Source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/11 … News-Sites
Looks like they are using the Google Checkout Service (similar to PayPal), to allow New sites to have us make Micro-payments for access to content.
Good idea? How much would you want to pay to see the rest of an article? Will this work better than a monthly/yearly subscription model?
