Editor&Publisher: Bitcents – the first micropayment system for publishers?
October 9th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism
San Francisco and London-based start-up Bitcents launched it micropayment system for news organisations this week – the first fully functional system for publishers, it claims.
The system will enable users to pay for subscriptions to networks of content from bitcents’ partnering news sites.
The company has created the slideshow below explaining the system:
One particular feature of interest: bitcents says publishers’ content will remain discoverable through search engines under the system.
Journalism.co.uk will be following up with the company to find out more.
