Amazon launches its Micropayment system called FPS (Amazon Flexible Payment System). I guess it mainly will be used to charge people for reading web content, as you can create unlimited microcharge rules (e.g. charge 0.01 US$ per page view). Transaction fee seems to be moderate, especially if you keep the money within the Amazon payment system.
I wonder if future hotel cashiers do show the exchange rates for Paypal, Amazon, SMP (Skype Micropayment), ER (Electronic Renminbi) and MMS (Microsoft Money System) instead of USD, EUR and Yen... fra link: http://tinyurl.com/232r3y source: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/08/pay-me-now-or-p.html