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Personally I believe that the cost of accessing the Net and of miscellaneous things associated with that (software, storage, media cards) is a significant reason which reduces greatly what people are willing to pay for e-content. That plus access to so many things freely available.
You buy a dvd player and you are done, but with a pc and even a broadband connection you still need assorted stuff...
Nickel and diming people with micro payments may or may not work if a system is devised to support such, but there are big hurdles to devise a system that works; the obstacles are not technological, but economic since for anything involving real money you have to insure a high level of security otherwise nobody uses it, and that costs a lot.
Paypal is the closest we have now but it's not cost effective for micro payments. Some sort of anonymous e-cash may work, but there are political problems with that, so I am skeptical of micro payments for the foreseeable future.
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