Comments on: The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News http://paidcontent.org/2012/01/18/419-the-times-plans-social-sharing-upgrade-real-time-ipad-news/ The economics of digital content Thu, 23 May 2013 00:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Greg Golebiewski http://paidcontent.org/2012/01/18/419-the-times-plans-social-sharing-upgrade-real-time-ipad-news/#comment-87120 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:33:33 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2012/01/18/419-the-times-plans-social-sharing-upgrade-real-time-ipad-news/#comment-87120 Yes, I am at the same conference Rob is now, DCMEurope  and what Nick Bell of News International actually said is that micropayments are an option under consideration. This is the news of the day.

In his answer to my question, Nick also talked about some perceived issues that need to be answered/solved. But this is not a big surprise; we find that a lot of publishers do not know that today’s micropayment solutions are a lot more frictionless for the user than metered subs are.

It would be so much better if paidContent tried to inform media about the benefits of micropayments rather than call them “suspicious.” Especially, that Nick did not say that.

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