Thread: Bezos buys Washington Post. Really.
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Old 08-14-2013, 05:43 PM   #62
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
I get emails from the Washington Post every day. They contain just the headlines for some articles. If I click the headline it takes me to the article. Why don't they show me the first paragraph of the article and give me a button to buy the article for something like10-20 Amazon Coins (to avoid CC fees)?

I don't want to subscribe to the whole newspaper but I'd buy 5 or 10 articles a week. If I find I'm buying a lot more then I would want to look at some of the options for a larger part of the newspaper.

There might be enough people buying individual articles and columns to add some useful revenue.
If Bezos ever gets involved with running the WP that kind of microtransaction system is going to be on the short list of new features.
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