I can tell you the easy answer to that problem: micropayments.<p>Look how much people will spend on Android apps when they&#x27;re a dollar or three.  Make things really cheap, and people will buy them: they&#x27;ll do a lot of impulse purchases when things are cheap enough.<p>If news articles only showed you part of the article, and then demanded $0.02 to read the rest, I could see a lot of people paying that.  Considering how little they get paid for ad impressions (fractions of a cent), direct payments like that would be more profitable, and readers wouldn&#x27;t care that much about spending pocket change on it.<p>But there&#x27;s no way to make a functioning micropayment system currently.  It&#x27;s not feasible to have credit-card payments for sub-$1 transactions because of the high per-transaction fees, and Visa&#x2F;MC have a cartel going where you have to use them for any kind of credit&#x2F;debit payments.<p>SV needs to figure out how to make easy, low-fee micropayments a reality, and then we&#x27;ll see some change.