[dugreader]

I've been waiting for this for years as well. I would think some group of publishers would partner with some micropayment tool. Maybe, you buy a pool of tokens, and if you don't have a subscription to a magazine, you can apply a token. I think it would require some cash, management, and connections to create an initial pool of publishers that would make the service viable (ie, I already have 10 subscriptions, so I would need n more that I don't want to before I would fund some pool). Because it doesn't exist, and seems so obvious, I also expect that it doesn't happen for other contractual/competitive reasons. But, here's hoping some entrepreneur takes it on.