Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites

Posted by timothy on Friday September 11, 2009 @12:12AM from the much-much-nicer-than-a-horse-head dept.

CWmike writes "Google is promoting a payment system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea that could help publishers struggling with the impact of the Internet. The plans were revealed in a document Google submitted to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), which had solicited ideas for how to monetize content online, a task some publishers have had difficulty with. 'The idea is to allow viable payments of a penny to several dollars by aggregating purchases across merchants,' Google said in the document. Google said it had no specific products to announce yet."

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Re:Good luck with that one .... by jimbolauski · 2009-09-11 00:30 · Score: 5, Funny

And besides who RTFA anyway.

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Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Re:Great idea! by sakdoctor · 2009-09-11 01:17 · Score: 4, Funny

I am interested in your necromancy approach to dying industries, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
But only if it's free.