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Re:Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year End by neuralRiot on Friday January 25, 2019 @07:49PM (#19003976)
It should be something easy to implement, perhaps a "token" system where you start to read and a mesaage tells you "this article costs x "readerCoins" continue?".
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Re:Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year End by Kalium on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:50AM (#19024087)
As soon as you throw in a custom currency, the whole thing falls apart. From the user's perspective, part of the value-add is the seamlessness of the proposal. Micropayments are anything but seamless.
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