Yes, we can now get our work published.  We can offer it online.  BUT how do we get people to pay for it?  A new online facility via iCents may provide the answer.

iCents.net is just weeks old, and very much in beta development.  But writers will want to know about it.

This facility, if it catchs on, will allow internet shoppers deposit a certain amount in a central online account, paying into it in any way they choose.  Websites, on the other hand, will be able to make purchase links right on their own pages.  A buyer just clicks on the link and then clicks a payment approval button — and the transaction is done.

The developer of iCents is aiming a publishers and websites, hoping they will be interested in selling one article at a time, or perhaps a short online connection time for unlimited browsing.  AND writers could sell their work chapter by chapter, without the buyer having to fill out any forms.

Check the website for more insight into how this system proposes to work.

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