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Here’s a funny question: Did you pay to read this?
It’s funny because it has two obvious and opposite answers. If you’re at your kitchen table holding The Times’ Calendar section, then of course you paid.
On the other hand, if you’re reading ...
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Newspapers Again Thinking About Micropayments
Techdirt —
There's been a lot of hand-wringing in the paper journalism world lately about business models, so it's no surprise that bad ideas for business models are springing up again. Specifically, some are beginning to wonder if micropayments could work. As Clay Shirky notes in the article, any time people bring up micropayments as a solution, it's a hail mary pass -- a last ditch effort by someone who has no other ideas. Now, every time we bring up micropayments, we get some pushback, but no micropayment system has ever been shown to consistently work on a large scale ...
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Ask a Lore Nerd: Hail to the king
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Welcome to Ask a Lore Nerd , where each week blogger and columnist Alex Ziebart answers your questions about the lore and history of the World of Warcraft. Ask your questions in the comments section below, and we'll try to answer it in a future ...
iTunes price changes raise music labels' hopes —
SFGate: Technology 1/17/2009
Although Apple Inc. announced this month that some songs sold on its market-leading iTunes online service would be available for 69 cents instead of the 99-cent tag Apple had insisted on for years, the change won't necessarily put more money into the ...
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