Google's Newspass, another salvo in the battle for paid-for content domination
The web's been in a flap over stories about Google's new paywall initiative, Newspass, set to launch later this year. The Internet megalith believes it may just have found the answer to news companies' prayers. Local media and web experts are less convinced.
2 Jul 2010
Italian newspaper La Republica had geeks around the globe in a spin and piqued the interest of the world's media when it announced that Google was in beta phase with developing a content payment system for publishers called Newspass.
For days Google didn't acknowledge the report, but a spokesperson did tell the New York Times, "We've consistently said we're talking with news publishers about ways we can work together, including whether we can help them with technology to power any subscription services they may be thinking of building."
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