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Waltham, Mass., Firm Offers Ways to Sell Music, Pictures at 'Cent' Prices.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004
By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 7--WALTHAM, Mass.--For all of their success using the World Wide Web to sell $200 airplane tickets, $20 books, and $1 songs, Internet entrepreneurs have struggled for years to find a way to sell the digital equivalent of five-and-dime store content.
But since two early providers of online cash tokens, Beenz.com and Flooz.com, flopped two years ago, a new crop of online "micropayment" companies has emerged with strategies to make it profitable to sell pictures, stories, music, and other forms of entertainment and information at prices measured in cents, not dollars.
One of the start-ups generating particular enthusiasm is Peppercoin com, a 12-person Waltham...
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