Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 2, 2003 @12:36PM 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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Re:I don't mean to be a party pooper but... by Atrahasis · 2003-07-02 12:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The reason it failed was because he was shortly thereafter found dead in his home.

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For mature readers only by art-boy · 2003-07-02 13:36 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I agree that micropayments might not be the best solution for selling creative content online but youth not being able to buy into this system is really not an issue with this paticular content as it is "for mature readers only."