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July 06, 2013, 10:46:06 AM |
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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.
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