Google, despite its frosty relationship with the newspapers, proposed a micropayment system giving the latter’s industry a chance to charge for their online content. The system is ased on Google Checkout which will be available within a year to Google and non-Google services.
With this proposal which was submitted to the Newspaper Association of America, Google is giving the newspaper industry a scalable e-commerce system through their Checkout product.
Google’s proposal includes the following five key features: single sign-on capability, ability for publishers to combine subscriptions, ability to for publishers to create multiple payment options, multiple tiers of access to search, and an advertising system.
Hopefully, this proposal will make both sides – Google and the newspaper industry – take advantage with their partnership.