{"id":20,"date":"2003-08-18T07:55:42","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T07:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/20"},"modified":"2003-08-18T07:55:42","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T07:55:42","slug":"micropayments-finally-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/20","title":{"rendered":"Micropayments finally here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably the last on the block to have heard about this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/\">Scott McCloud<\/a>, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/store\/books\/uc.html\">Understanding Comics<\/a>, has finally come out with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/comics\/trn\/intro.html\">online comic<\/a> available for a micropayment of 25 cents. Or rather, he came out with it over a month ago, but I just found out about it today. As you might expect from Scott, he&#8217;s put the new medium (Macromedia Flash in this case) to good use without losing the fundamental comic-book feel. It was a quarter well-spent, especially since I could download the content to my computer and feel like I actually got something I can call &#8220;my copy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Payments are made through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitpass.com\/\">BitPass<\/a>, a new startup out of Stanford that allows you to open an account with as little as three dollars and a credit card or PayPal account. The whole process was quick and painless, as is the payment process itself. There&#8217;s not too much content you can purchase through BitPass yet, but it looks like they&#8217;re building up a solid content base as they go through their beta-testing. Content providers seem to still be figuring out how the market will play out for different kinds of media: models range from the donation cups that are already common with PayPal, to purchase-and-download, to a &#8220;30 reads in 90 days&#8221; pay-per-view kind of model.<\/p>\n<p>And now just in case I wasn&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> the last person on the Internet to have heard about this, you know too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably the last on the block to have heard about this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/\">Scott McCloud<\/a>, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/store\/books\/uc.html\">Understanding Comics<\/a>, has finally come out with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmccloud.com\/comics\/trn\/intro.html\">online comic<\/a> available for a micropayment of 25 cents. Or rather, he came out with it over a month ago, but I just found out about it today. As you might expect from Scott, he&#8217;s put the new medium (Macromedia Flash in this case) to good use without losing the fundamental comic-book feel. It was a quarter well-spent, especially since I could download the content to my computer and feel like I actually got something I can call &#8220;my copy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Payments are made through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitpass.com\/\">BitPass<\/a>, a new startup out of Stanford that allows you to open an account with as little as three dollars and a credit card or PayPal account. The whole process was quick and painless, as is the payment process itself. There&#8217;s not too much content you can purchase through BitPass yet, but it looks like they&#8217;re building up a solid content base as they go through their beta-testing. 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