(sub. req.) (A free version of the story here) WSJ weighs in on micropayments, and come up with a wishy-washy story, which isn’t necessarily too far from the state of the market itself at this point. “Micropayments is today about digital music,” says Todd Pearson, managing director of merchant services at PayPal. “Our hope is that once this really starts to take off…it will open the door for further micropayment digital content beyond digital music,” he says.
The story covers the usual suspects like BitPass and Peppercoin…
Usability research expert Jakob Nielsen believes that consumers will gravitate toward any transaction service that survives an industry shakeout, and new Web services will begin to implement micropayments as part of their initial strategy.
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