Micropayments will fail. Four years ago, Clay Shirky wrote about
micropayments
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html
which could
... reward creators of text, graphics, music or video without the
overhead of publishing middlemen or the necessity to charge
Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked about micropayments:
... are there some relevant or parallel experiences that might
serve as models for exploration?
As I said in a previous message, micropayments will fail. Clay Shirky
So it's OT. ;)
I've got yet another Bright Idea (stand back, get behind the blast
shields...) based on the idea of handling micropayments something like
how iTunes does now, as well as a kind of file sharing that's really
more like a swap meet than anything else.
My question is: anyone else
want readers to be able to offer *used* eBooks for
sale, which would
sell for something less than their original price,
some of which would
go back to us, the rest to the seller, who could
then apply those
credits toward *more* book purchases.
The rest I can't comment on, but this
On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:02 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
want readers to be able to offer *used* eBooks for
sale, which would
sell for something less than their original price,
some of which would
go back to us, the rest to the seller, who could
then apply those
credits toward *more* book purchases.
The
You've hit the crux of it. Why bother, indeed,
buying a new *paper*
book if you can get the same title, gently used, for
half the cover
price? This is what makes it difficult to be a
publisher and *great* to
be a bookstore, particularly those that handle used
titles. Amazon's
making a
On Dec 21, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
You've hit the crux of it. Why bother, indeed,
buying a new *paper*
book if you can get the same title, gently used, for
half the cover
price? This is what makes it difficult to be a
publisher and *great* to
be a bookstore, particularly those that
