NRC Media will this year use of the payment service Google One Pass. Readers can thus separate editions and articles, and buy and do not need a subscription to take off. Journalistenmagazine Villamedia offers this already.
Via Google One Pass, that at the beginning of this year it was introduced, users can subscribe to digital newspapers and magazines. It is also possible to loose items to purchase. Villamedia is the first Dutch magazine here. The paid trade magazine for journalists, with the One Pass payment platform Google Checkout articles online checkout.
Editor-in-chief Dolf Rogmans of Villamedia chose Google One Pass because a large number of international publishers use the service; include Media General, Axel Springer and the Nouvel Observateur’s do that already. Rogmans calls the system ‘charming’: “Visitors don’t have a complicated contract, but can easily loose items to buy. We noticed that there was a need for.”
Articles in Villamedia cost at least 39 cents, which Google per transaction, ten percent will receive. That is, according to Rogmans considerably less than, for example, iDeal, for which per transaction, more is expected. Disadvantages that visitors can only with credit card checkout.
NRC Media, publisher of, among others, NRC Next and NRC Handelsblad, as a second Dutch party, the payment service to use. “This year can use that online editions can be purchased,” says publisher Han-Menno Depeweg against Tweakers.net. Early next year it should according to him be possible to loose items to purchase. This would also apply to the documents that are already online, and only accessible to subscribers. NRC wants to start next year all krantenverhalen, since 1992, published through One Pass to make it accessible. The publishing house would, by article thirty to forty cents like to ask.
Except NRC, Villamedia, there are currently no other parties known that One Pass want to implement. “We perform multi-party calls, but have nothing to announce at this time”, let spokesman Mark Jansen when prompted, know. He can also nothing to disclose about the may or may not add iDeal to the payment options of the service.