Monday 21 June 2010

Is Google about to sell us a Newspass?

Roy Greenslade in The Guardian today has reported a story about Google potentially providing a 'one click' payment system for content....

For their part, publishers will be able to designate what type of payment they want to accept, including subscriptions and micropayments. People who find content from participating publishers in Google search will see a paywall icon next to that content and be able to purchase access directly from there by using Google's Checkout platform.


Read the full article here on The Guardian's web site

In the light of various business models that are coming to the fore something like this, that makes it easy to buy the bits of content as you need it,rather than having to take out a raft of subscriptions is a good idea, because for paid content to work it has to be this kind of model or for it to be included in our mobile device package.

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