{"id":144,"date":"2009-05-18T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mimansion.com\/luisbenavides\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-05-18T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:38:41","slug":"yes-newspapers-can-be-saved-with-micropayment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/18\/yes-newspapers-can-be-saved-with-micropayment\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes! Journalism can be saved with Micropayments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a response to Techcrunch&#8217;s post:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/24r\">There We Go Again. No, Micropayments Won\u2019t \u201cSave Journalism\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Micropayments aren&#8217;t <strong>the<\/strong> solution, I do think they are part of it. When iTunes broke-through it weren\u2019t the Micropayments which made that business model possible, but the iTunes store + iPod + record labels agreement combo. Apple made it easy for everyone to get a song.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what the newspapers have to do is create content worth paying for, and make the payment and distribution so easy that it isn\u2019t convenient to go elsewhere looking for it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if I had the option to easily browse through the articles, pay for the ones I want to read <strong>and<\/strong> get add-ons such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Audio version<\/strong>: To listen in my iPod.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platform for discussion<\/strong>: What if each article had an identifiable #hashtag in Twitter so that I could follow the discussion?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommendations<\/strong>: different points of view, related articles in the same newspaper or articles recommended by the authors (ie. further reading).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Portable version<\/strong>: Similarly as iTunes, make the article available and easily accessible from devices such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amazon_Kindle\">Kindle<\/a>, iPhone, Android.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would definitely love paying for it!<\/p>\n<p>If the newspapers change their model to something like this, I think the ones that generate good content and are considered as trustworthy sources will not only survive, but be very profitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! Journalism can be saved with Micropayments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisbenavides.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}