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by karsa 5834 days ago
The payment part is clean, its a few clicks and your done, it happens in another window and you go back and continue watching from where you left off.

It works by looking at how much content they has watched then after a set time (which the publisher decides) they get paused and asked to pay, so only once they are hooked on it are they asked to pay.

I use the system with great success on my doc site :http://www.documentary-film.net/ and before implementing the concept there the site was always in trouble as the bandwidth costs were so high and if I placed the content behind a pay wall sales went to zero. As soon as I introduced this concept the sales went up by 90%, so I know the system works.

The problem is I thought it was a great idea but so far the response has been pretty light and I'm just thinking is it worth continuing to push along or should I just try something else?

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fwiw, the 'going to another page' is pretty jarring. Having a paywall inside the player would make it far more understandable.