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Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Great idea! by lxs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even worse: Most magazines are pay and ads.