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Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment

Posted by simoniker on from the please-nickel-and-dime-me dept.

jaime g. wong writes "Scott McCloud's latest comic, 'The Right Number', is finally available online... for just 25 cents! McCloud has discussed the concept of micropayment for online comics before; let's all hope this idea, using BitPass technology, will succeed." There's more info via a a Comic Book Resources article, and Tycho over at Penny Arcade also has opinions on the micropayment route: "..if you have enough readers who care about your work to go through all that rigmarole, you could succeed with any business model... I see it as a model for compensation, lined up with the other models for compensation, like at the police station."

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  1. Micropayments by Atrahasis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that a millionth of a normal payment?

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    1. Re:Micropayments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      in theory it should be, but this guy is being greedy.

    2. Re:Micropayments by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's correct. The total fee for the strip is 25 cents, payable in one million easy micropayments of .00000025 USD each.

  2. That'll.... by PaulK · · Score: 4, Funny

    leave me out. I've inserted quarter after quarter, but now all my drive does is grind.

    1. Re:That'll.... by orthogonal · · Score: 4, Funny

      How big are American quarters? I've never seen one...

      Then get a job, you slacker!

      And clean the basement before I get home! I never should have let you move down there!

      Love,
      Mom

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  3. Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Won't he get sued by Amazon?

  4. Will MicroPay if... by QEDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will MicroPay if you mod me up

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  5. So let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they put no copy protection on it, you'll just steal it.

    If they put copy protection on it, you'll bitch about fair use, wait till someone brighter than you hacks it, and then steal it.

    Does that sum things up?

  6. Re:Another viable Micropayment system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wahoo! Picopayments! Several orders of magnitude cheaper than micropayments!

  7. Could be worse by SuperBanana · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is that a millionth of a normal payment?

    Could be worse. I could be pintpayments.

    "Let's see, 12 inches in a foot, pint's a pound the world around, 2 weeks in a fortnight...so to view 36 comics over 6 weeks I'd need to pay him...ah crap, does anyone remember how many pints in in a gallon?"

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  8. Re:Scott and Penny Arcade by Unknown+Relic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gotta love the news post for that old comic:

    (Our server never quite recovered from beatings sustained at the hands of News.com or Slashdot, the links from whom (while very much appreciated!) acted upon our frail machine like so many jackhammers. I'm told by our server techs that we'd seen over two-hundred thousand unique ip's in under two hours - but even given the caliber of the weapons aimed against us, I feared that the site had attracted the loathsome skr1pt k1dd13, who, fixing his perverse attentions upon our devices, proceeded to fuck them into oblivion.

  9. Re:Most glaring problem with this by scrotch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but now you gotta pay 25 cents to find out if it sucks...

  10. When, oh when will they learn? by friday2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    DigiCash's eCash, CyberCash's CyberCoin, Millicent, nCash (NTT), Paybox, ...

    Head ... Will ... Explode ... Flashback ... 199x ... Internet Bubble ...
    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, leave me alone. Do NOT EVER TRY A MICROPAYMENT A G A I N! Just don't.