Tag Archives: micropayments

They’re talking about a blackout of free news. Again.

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Les Jones

Jack Lail – Crazy talk about newspapers: TJ Sullivan proposes “It’s time for every daily newspaper in the United States, in cooperation with the Associated Press, to shut down their free Web sites for one week.” Ah, you first TJ. … Continue reading →

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They’re talking about micropayments. Again.

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Les Jones

Via Michael Silence, I see that Time magazine’s Walter Isaacson is proposing that newspapers use micropayments to finance their Web operations. The idea of micropayments is that readers would pay a small fee – a quarter, or a dime, or … Continue reading →

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