The Smithsonian is adopting micropayment

elektro80

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5139515.html?tag=nefd_top

Can't find that Iroquois dance music you were searching for on iTunes? No folk songs about Nebraska on Napster?

Not to fear, the Smithsonian Institution is adopting a pay-per-download model as a new opportunity to generate income and offer greater access to its unique catalogue. How unique? Two titles currently for sale on the organization's Web site include Abayudaya: The Music of the Jews of Uganda and Cowboy Poetry Classics.

mosc · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:56 am Post subject:

I understand that the BBC is in the process of making all of their archives available for free on the internet. I don't see why the museum of the "greatest country in the world" needs to be so cheap.

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

yes.. the BBC will do it for free because the content is already paid for ... the taxes etc..