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| | Making the web pay | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | Patronage, too, is returning as a way of funding the online writing and photography found on the most popular weblogs, although in a somewhat curious manner. |
 | | The Right Number is not the first comic to be sold online: many of the established newspaper strips offer paid-for email delivery, and other independent artists have clubbed together to offer mass subscriptions. |
 | | McCloud, whose book Reinventing Comics went some way to introduce the ideas of paid-for internet distribution to the comic industry, says that the systems may well be here for micropayments to break into the mainstream. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /online/story/0,3605,1013313,00.html (1603 words) |
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