Tag Archives: micropayments
Why it’s bad to cite iTunes as proof that micropayments will work
Forgive me for posting Patrick Thornton’s whole paragraph without much in the way of comment, but I don’t think it needs much.
Yes, Apple makes money off of micro transactions on the iTunes store and does sell songs for $0.69–1.29. First, there is a huge difference between selling a song for 99 cents and selling an article [...]
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Set the good stuff free and charge for the peas
The title of this post doesn’t make a lot of sense until you read an interesting post by Lucas Grindley, the online managing editor for NationalJournal.com. Grindley’s responding to the revived idea of charging for news content online, an idea that’s stuck in the craw of many “information wants to be free” advocates.
Grindley’s argument makes [...]
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