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I'd hypothesize the problems of newspapers could largely be solved with micro-payments.

This has been the Business Plan of the Future for at least the last fifteen years. This Clay Shirky essay is getting on towards nine years old:

http://openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html

... and yet the counterexamples are still pretty thin on the ground. Where is the newspaper that thrives on micropayments? It's not like nobody has had the time to try it yet.



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