One more "Let's bring Bitcoins to ..." Newspapers!

[Itcher]

Hello everyone,

as some maybe know, the whole newspaper business is for years in financial trouble, cause everyone put all the content for free into the internet in the interest not to fall back in the competition to earn money from advertisers. But the income from ads is far too less to finance real journalism, which is one reason, why the quality of newspapers sinks year by year ...

As I know for sure the great question, which spooks in every publisher's head, is how to make money with this "fucking, business-disturbing" internet? As I suppose, the half of the publishers do wish in their best dreams, that some day some great man will come and shut down the internet, so they can sell paper for money, as they did the last 200 years. The other half is looking with kind interest and, partly, open-minded, on every technic, which would make their online-content-platform to a pot of gold. As this smart-phone-app thing arrived, nearly every publisher said: Howdy, this is the boat which will help us to escape from this desaster.

The way, money goes from reader to publisher via smartphone-app is this: The reader pays via his mobile-bill via his bank-account via apple via the publisher's bank account via what-the-hell's-stair ... a lot of steps, a lot of merchants-between which want to have their share from this business.

I like many other people like the press and have no problem to pay a little sum for a article I enjoy. But it's so heavy complicated to do.

With bitcoin the publishers only need to generate a transaction-hash. That's all. One copy + paste, and your favorite newspaper earns some hundred satoshis.

Wired is, as I see, very open to bitcoin. The guardian also, and the guardian is in deep financial trouble.

[franky1]

you got a point. a few people here just want to see it mentioned on newspapers. not used to buy news articles, so +1 for your idea.
people don't need to sell/advertise bitcoin like a product by advertising it in newspapers. because people already see it as a product. meaning its something they buy and then think to themselves, what can they use it with.

what truly needs to be done is have a bitcoin 'yellow pages' of businesses that accept bitcoin.

most people can only think of and name 5-10 LEGIT bitcoin businesses.

the most common are:
wordpress
bitmit
bitcoinstore

and a couple random others.

but hardly anyone can name or even realise that there are thousands of businesses, and not just in the U.S. everything from dating (OKCupid), fast food (Foodler).

if you truly want to try something, heres a sales pitch (aimed at the armchair activists)

"tired of being alone in your basement hacking away at your keyboard, with no love in your life. well thanks to bitcoin you can be rich, successful and find love.

1)get into bitcoin
2)sign up to OKCupid with bitcoin
3)order food at Foodler ready for when your date arrives

now feel happy that you never had to leave your house to even visit an ATM

[Itcher]

FT do some great Bitcoin articles too but have a registration wall that belongs in the 90's. I don't think anyone's really got going on micropayments yet, we still seem to take it for granted that its too expensive to charge a few cents to view a web page. When a single click type method for doing that establishes its self it will open up massive web based content market in many area's, not just journalism.

yup, that's it! That's a great practical thing Bitcoin serves.

[Big Toe]

this is a fabulous idea and one I applaud sincerely.