Hvorfor mikrobetaling av nyheter aldri vil bli noe av

Clay Shirky forklarer her, (et godt stykke ned på siden), hvorfor mikrobetaling aldri vil kunne redde avisbransjen: What Would Micropayments Do for Journalism? A Freakonomics Quorum, The New York Times, 18. feb. 2009.

The fantasy that small payments will save publishers as they move online is really a fantasy that monopoly pricing power can be reestablished over we users.