One of the great myths perpetrated by the internet is that information is free. Is it hell! Martin explains, from PC Plus magazine. It costs someone to produce information on the internet, even if the only cost is the time taken for a labour of love. The problem is that the internet has made it too easy for information to be obtained for nothing, mainly because making people pay is still such a difficult task. Read on... That is about to change, for the internet as a vehicle for business - and in particular the small businesses that constitute the self-employed individual - is hamstrung by the inability to sensibly transact micro-payments. The banks, bless them, in general seem totally incapable of grasping the subject, while the costs of transacting a 10p single document purchase using a credit card makes the whole task pointless for everyone. Source Link: PC Plus UK
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