As internet users we have access to a great deal of people's work - both legitimately and illegitimately.
We have the same access to those things in real life; and wheter or not you choose to obtain them legitimately or illegitimately is a matter between you, the
owner, and in the event of one of the choices, the baillifs.
Subscription or Pay-to-Play services are available; but are really not that finely tuned yet. Nor are the audience for that matter. It is inconvenient to
make use of a variety of services that allow you to pay for your content; or to get you paid for your content. Paypal takes a chunk off that makes small
transactions of limited viability.
I think it was Scott McLeod, although I am sure others have done so, who noted the idea of micro-payments. A mechanism by which pay-for-play content could be
rapidly provided in ammounts of a 5 cents to a fraction of a cent.
You want your daily web-comic? 2cents. The days online news. 10cents. A pictures of those large, bouncy, boobies. 3 cents.
In this model even a cent a day, five days a week, for 1,000 users =$2,600 yearly; for Sluggy Freelance at approximately 100,0000; this number becomes rather
significant. Even a moderately popular webcomic could generate significant revenue; rewarding the creative force behind it.
This is going to have to take changes in technology; including pay-as-you-go internet cards (not everyone has or would want to use a credit card) which are
already in their infancy - buying content credits like you would buy mintues for a pay-as-you-go cel phone. More importantly it is going to require a change
in attitude.
I am not going to hold my breath on the last one
Shayne
We have the same access to those things in real life; and wheter or not you choose to obtain them legitimately or illegitimately is a matter between you, the
owner, and in the event of one of the choices, the baillifs.
Subscription or Pay-to-Play services are available; but are really not that finely tuned yet. Nor are the audience for that matter. It is inconvenient to
make use of a variety of services that allow you to pay for your content; or to get you paid for your content. Paypal takes a chunk off that makes small
transactions of limited viability.
I think it was Scott McLeod, although I am sure others have done so, who noted the idea of micro-payments. A mechanism by which pay-for-play content could be
rapidly provided in ammounts of a 5 cents to a fraction of a cent.
You want your daily web-comic? 2cents. The days online news. 10cents. A pictures of those large, bouncy, boobies. 3 cents.
In this model even a cent a day, five days a week, for 1,000 users =$2,600 yearly; for Sluggy Freelance at approximately 100,0000; this number becomes rather
significant. Even a moderately popular webcomic could generate significant revenue; rewarding the creative force behind it.
This is going to have to take changes in technology; including pay-as-you-go internet cards (not everyone has or would want to use a credit card) which are
already in their infancy - buying content credits like you would buy mintues for a pay-as-you-go cel phone. More importantly it is going to require a change
in attitude.
I am not going to hold my breath on the last one
Shayne