| I've thought this forever; there should be one service with a few levels of content: (*) free/public - encourage people to come to your site! ($) blog ($$) opinion article ($$$) solid multi-page feature ($$$$) they went out and made a bloody documentary It's not even that it's difficult to build. YC should just build it as they are out of the Google/Facebook/Microsoft want to own everything ever written equation. If there is one system for this you can give search engines access for free and even allow people to share articles with relevant people. There is no paywall, you pay per article a fixed fee per $ everywhere. There is a value system built in if people think the articles were bad. Better tiers of users can have different levels they can charge. There is not need for micropayments as the wallet you top up with $10 per time even though articles cost, say, multiples 5c. JS toolkit to bring up the "authorise" credits dialog ala Facebook friends dialog. Bookmarking... and loads of other features would be easy to add. It would make loads of money that. |