Educational Technology

February 21, 2011

Browser Plug-in Pays Publishers as You Surf

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by Tom Simonite, Technology Review

Readability wants to make it easier to read stuff online—while directing a little cash toward the content’s creators. When design firm Arc90 relaunched its Readability Web service last week, it tried to solve two problems at once: that ad-cluttered Web pages make reading long articles a chore; and that no way exists for Web publishers to accept small sums of money for the articles that people read online. In return for a monthly fee of $5 or more (depending on a person’s generosity), Readability users get a new button in their browser that lets them make micropayments to publishers while reading articles with no unwanted clutter.

http://technologyreview.com/computing/32310/?p1=MstRcnt

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