Scott McCloud Tries Webcomic Micropayment 283
jaime g. wong writes "Scott McCloud's latest comic, 'The Right Number', is finally available online... for just 25 cents! McCloud has discussed the concept of micropayment for online comics before; let's all hope this idea, using BitPass technology, will succeed." There's more info via a a Comic Book Resources article, and Tycho over at Penny Arcade also has opinions on the micropayment route: "..if you have enough readers who care about your work to go through all that rigmarole, you could succeed with any business model... I see it as a model for compensation, lined up with the other models for compensation, like at the police station."
Micropayments (Score:4, Funny)
That'll.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Micropayments (Score:2, Funny)
Well (Score:1, Funny)
The Top 5 Reasons to Read Comics Online (Score:-1, Funny)
5. It gives you something to do on your Windows box while you're waiting for Gentoo to finish compiling.
4. You're like the other 98% of Slashdotters -- you don't do work at work.
3. Printed comics cover department calendars and to-do lists quite nicely.
2. You don't have a girlfriend.
1. Cracking the micropayment system will give you good practice for this Sunday's "hack fest."
Re:Micropayments (Score:4, Funny)
Will MicroPay if... (Score:4, Funny)
So let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
If they put copy protection on it, you'll bitch about fair use, wait till someone brighter than you hacks it, and then steal it.
Does that sum things up?
Re:Another viable Micropayment system (Score:2, Funny)
Could be worse (Score:4, Funny)
Could be worse. I could be pintpayments.
"Let's see, 12 inches in a foot, pint's a pound the world around, 2 weeks in a fortnight...so to view 36 comics over 6 weeks I'd need to pay him...ah crap, does anyone remember how many pints in in a gallon?"
Re:Scott and Penny Arcade (Score:5, Funny)
(Our server never quite recovered from beatings sustained at the hands of News.com or Slashdot, the links from whom (while very much appreciated!) acted upon our frail machine like so many jackhammers. I'm told by our server techs that we'd seen over two-hundred thousand unique ip's in under two hours - but even given the caliber of the weapons aimed against us, I feared that the site had attracted the loathsome skr1pt k1dd13, who, fixing his perverse attentions upon our devices, proceeded to fuck them into oblivion.
Re:Most glaring problem with this (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That'll.... (Score:5, Funny)
Then get a job, you slacker!
And clean the basement before I get home! I never should have let you move down there!
Love,
Mom
When, oh when will they learn? (Score:3, Funny)
Head
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, leave me alone. Do NOT EVER TRY A MICROPAYMENT A G A I N! Just don't.